On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > Another plus point is the almost complete devel tools provided out of the > box: the gcc suite. Now if I happen across an open source project that > hasn't made it yet to the portage tree, I can just download and compile it > myself.
This. Very much this. My dive into Gentoo came as I was fed up with Debian and Ubuntu having buggy and/or outdated versions of multimedia encoding packages while trying to configure a box specced for live transcoding of h.264 to something my PS3 would like. -- :wq
