Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th May 2002 07:05 UTC
Gentoo is so far, the big Linux surprise this year. With its 1.0 release took the Linux world by storm and converted a huge number of power users and developers from the well-known Linux distros they were using, to the lightweight Gentoo Linux. While its installation process is not for the faint of heart, it pays back the user with a highly optimized system. As a result, Gentoo is dubbed the "fastest Linux distro" to date. Read on for an exclusive interview with Gentoo's project leader, Daniel Robbins where he reveals that Gentoo will be further optimized with the fastest x86 C/C++ compiler (Intel's ICC) in addition to GCC 3.1. Daniel also speaks about the future plans for Portage and the overall system in general.
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What would be really cool is if Gentoo and Debian were combined. You could use Debian's branches to give you the binaries and the base distribution, and Gentoo to give you all the bleeding edge stuff, so in addition to: apt, dselect or dpkg, which would try to install the binaries (if available) you would also have emerge-apt, emerge-dselect and emerge-dpkg which would try to build the source and use the installed debian binary packages if they were available.
I'm thinking of something like this:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2002-May/msg00133.html
Note that if Gentoo added Debian support, it would allow it to automatically have a "stable" branch that was well debugged. It would also bring too great communities together.
Is such a distribution out there or will Gentoo do something like this in the future?