Linked by Bob Minvielle on Wed 17th Jul 2002 19:18 UTC
There have been many articles as of late about the so called "source" distributions of Linux. Articles about "rpm hell" and how to get out of it. While I have been using Red Rat since the first release (and do have some things for and against it) there is no distribution that will please all of the people all of the time. Then again, that is what makes an OS like Linux nice, in my opinion. Choices. Today, Gentoo Linux is my choice.
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Umm...he calls his 1.4GHz Dell (p4 class) machine new and fast? Woah. That machine sits squarely in the major POS category.
You defeinitely need a good software development calibre machine to feed the gentoo beast. I installed it at work on a dual p3 600 machine and it took like 9 hours to upgrade kde 3.0 to 3.0.1. Painful. At home on my dual athlon 1.43 it's pretty stinking fast. I do an "emerge rsync" a few times a day and there's definitely changes going ALL the time (although I submitted some ebuilds 3 weeks ago that still aren't in).
I'm glad to see that gentoo is *somewhat* cross platform. I wonder how well it works with PowerPC.
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Mike (above) is a BSD militant. Wierd how much the BSD folks are like the MAC folks, they can only degenerate into simple minded name calling and general (gonad) envy of other OS's.
Puleeze dude, get a life. Regardless of what you think of Linux, BSD would not be even remotely close to what it is today without Linux. Hmmm..I guess without Linux there would be fewer BSD whiners.....
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