[wellylug] Redhat Stopping Redhat linux!?

[David Antliff]

Jethro Carr said:
>
> check this article out!
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/03/1657205
>
> Time to get a new distro...

Can I recommend Gentoo? If you have broadband it's not too hard to get
running - you learn a lot and it's fun. There's also a great community
forum (forums.gentoo.org) that is usually polite and quick to assist. It's
a compile-from-source distribution but there's also binary packages if
you'd rather go that way. They can be a real time-saver since compiling
something like KDE can take days. However, I prefer to compile almost
everything using Gentoo's Portage package system. If you are familiar with
FreeBSD and the 'ports' system, then Gentoo's 'portage' will make more
sense to you.

Gentoo is for people with spare time that want to get the most out of
Linux - CPU-specific optimisation and compile-time customisation are major
features. It's also much easier to dive into the inner workings with
Gentoo than it is with RedHat in my opinion. It is 'unstable' in the sense
that the 'stable' set of released packages changes over time (like
Debian's Sid) so it's probably not suitable for a 24/7 production server
unless you impose your own package freeze.

Oh, be warned, it may take up a lot of your time. But it's fun! :)

There's a NZ package mirror at ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz/gentoo

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David.