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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Eugenia,
I have completed the stage 3 install; the plan has been to to do an "emerge -p <stuff>" at home, run it through a script (available at gentoo.org forums) to give me URLs for _all_ the required files, and download them at work. The two headaches thus far:
* the custom kernel created was crap, even though the only experimental feature I used was the ACPI for my laptop. My machine ran godawful slow with this kernel. I left a new one compiling as I left for work. With either the kernel off the CD or a custom, my hard disk can't use DMA (I'm experimenting now; perhaps it's unfair to blame this on Gentoo).
* The process to get the URLs for the various required source files didn't work correctly; that, or the portage tree on the stage 3 CD is woefully outdated -- have to figure that out tonight. In any case, I'll try with the latest portage snapshot and see if I get anywhere.
If, optimistically, I can get all this corrected in short order, I am still wondering if I want so much time spent on compilation with each major software upgrade. Perhaps the best thing to do is try it out; if I get overly annoyed, i can just nuke my installation and start over with Debian.