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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Just to address a couple of points in this message thread:
1. To the FreeBSD advocate -- Gentoo updated their web page the day 1.2 was "released". No, they don't update for every little beta release. Check the forums for that.
2. KPortage is a KDE interface to the portage package management system. It makes life 100x easier, and is very well done.
3. You can run most versions of most packages. You are not restricted to "only the latest" as one person complained. Currently there are build files for Apache 1.3.24 and 1.3.26 but with a little effort you can create files for almost any version. Copy, rename, double-check compile options in file. Drop souce code into folder. Drop MD5 sum file into folder and edit (to add a version string before the actual hash). Emerge.
4. Downside -- be careful which packages you remove. Dependencies only work one way -- installing. Portage will let you remove ANY package without a complaint. This includes glibc, bash, or anything else. Once you reboot... you're history.