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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Um, the poster you criticised did offer help by suggesting that the person with the problem use export USE="-X" to avoid downloading all of Xfree86 when trying to get Vim or whatever.
And Slow - Gentoo isn't supposed to be easy to install. I think Mandrake or Lycoris might be more what you are after. Sourcemage sounds interesting - shame I can't download it! (the links are dead)
Eugenia - is there a filter for posts? What I mean is, could I specify that I can ignore all posts that contain the word "zealot" for example? I really am tired of reading all this pointless reactionary insulting, and anything that uses zealot is rarely worth reading.
ps - thanks for a great site!