"Over the past few days, I discovered that the Gentoo Foundation's charter is in the process of being revoked by the state of New Mexico, apparently due to regular paperwork not being filed by the trustees. What this means is that the Gentoo Foundation is currently hanging for its life by a string, and at any day could cease to exist as an entity. That is the very bad news. The good news is that I was able to talk to Grant Goodyear (trustee) this morning on the phone, and I have confirmed that Grant had received my email about the revocation issue that I sent 2 days ago and that he will be resolving this critical issue in the next couple of days by filing the appropriate paperwork with the state of New Mexico, and this paperwork will also remove me as President of the Foundation."
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Member since:2006-03-12
"If you really want to know how your Linux system runs, use slackware or LFS."
I'd love you to clarify the answer, and am surprised that slackware users don't use swaret. Although I'm not even sure why Slackware is even relevant. I'm not sure people learn GNU this way. The *only* thing I can think of is using commands they wouldn't always.
The only thing you *could* say as regards the silly comment about Slackware is that you have to learn how portage works, but then thats what makes Gentoo the easy to manage meta-distribution it is.
The package-management on Gentoo. If you are familiar with it, is to provide a balance between ease of maintenance vs micro-management which it does well. If there was a *better* way. I would use it.
I suspect your post is some kind of Distro smackdown comment, but I'd love to hear what you mean, as Slackware was my choice of Distribution, before Gentoo.
Member since:2006-03-12
I'm actually giving your post more credence than your post deserves.
I would argue that LFS/slackware/Gentoo are not about leaning GNU. Although because of the time to set-up you learn something from help files, compiling, customizing , tailoring etc etc, but very little else. Gentoo is not an education tool. In reality the strength of Gentoo relies on some familiarity with the programs available to GNU to start with.
I'm confused by the term control. If control is downloading, and installing a program. Then you have a radically different version of control than me, windows users routinely do that.
Gentoo offers more control;customization...and *maintainability* in a meta-distribution. I suggest you look up use flags.
Slackware has and always was about *stability*...and nothing else, and does so exceptionally well, but this is at the cost of *any* optomisation not cutting edge, not as customizable, greater maintenance...but then thats not the point of Slackware, and I would be arrogant to suggest that I could set up a binary distribution as stable as Patrick Volkerding
LSF does offer you true customization...but at the heavy price of maintenance which is the main advantage of Gentoo.
I've posted really badly, I actually should be making these points.
1) There are different Distributions, because there are different *needs*, my need is I like to choose my applications. I want cutting-edge, package-management, stability, fun and Gentoo offers me this...at the cost of compile times.
2) Package-management is the *killer-application* of GNU simply because maintenance for *users* is so incredibly easy.
On reflection I should just have modded you down for being off topic.
Edited 2007-07-24 05:51
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2005-06-29
If you really want to know how your linux system runs, use slackware or LFS.
Any package management immediately adds a layer of complexity and that means less control.