-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 March 2003 02:29 pm, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
I have been reading up on Gentoo Linux during the day. Not that I'm in anyway unhappy with SuSE, but was interested in the rough idea. Has anyone here tried it? Is it indeed faster, as you would probably expect?
I've found it to be quite a bit faster, personally. Also, I've grown increasingly annoyed with the "RPM dependency issues" that pop up with RPM distros. Yes, i suppose that I can install stuff from YaST, but that still causes a bunch of other software to be dragged along with it. The "portage" system is pretty neat. Mirrors are fast. Everything is compiled/optimized for your hardware, from the ground up. The user forums are helpful.
Overall, it's a pretty nice distro, IMO.
I'd agree with this. It was an educational experience installing it (gentoo 1.4 rc3) on my backup machine (first gen athlon700), I really did think that what I was able to install worked pretty fast, unfortunately I had alot of problems w/ portage and ended up w/ many retries, some packages that simply wouldn't install, (from both gnome and kde). I've had similar experiences w/ freebsd on the same machine although kde3.1 installed well It really seemed nice and I attribute the problems I had to a combination of hardware and my own inexperience. Definately worth a try if you have a spare partition and broadband connection. All in all I'd choose to look forward to improvements to yast, apt4suse and synaptic if your machine is adaquately fast. - -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+f406BwgxlylUsJARAslQAJ451loC3ZKE0y5Jzue3ID8SOUUvUQCfb55E J6dU1tu+hLllaFRaEPpIpmY= =qQhr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----