[wellylug] Gentoo

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 9/01/2005, at 11:34 AM, Nigel Roberts wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 at 01:44:21 +1300, David Antliff wrote:
>
>> The installation might seem pretty daunting to a newbie, but it's 
>> actually
>> pretty much the same steps you'd go through to install something like
>> Debian, but without the fancy front-end.
>
> By implying that Debian has a fancy front-end for its installer, you
> made me snort tea on my keyboard.
>
> For the record, I've tried gentoo, but the ratio of time spent doing
> things to the system to time spent actually using the system was too
> high for my taste. This was a couple of years ago now, it might be
> better now :)

I can get a gentoo server up and running in under 2 hours. And this is 
a 600Mhz system, and compiling the kernel and everything. If I went for 
prebuilt packages (which I don't because GCC has issues with i686 
optimisations) it'd be about the same as a Debian install.

I wouldn't say Gentoo is for inexperienced users, but I like it, it 
just works for me :)
--
Phillip Hutchings
sitharus at sitharus.com
http://www.sitharus.com/
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