MJ Ray wrote:
Craig craigo@wizball.co.uk wrote:
Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious...
Remind me: is gentoo the "automate build all from sources" one? If so, what does it offer over Debian, pentium-builder (or whatever) and "apt-get build"?
Everything on Gentoo is indeed built from source. I have no idea how it differs from Debian, or even if it does, nor do I know if it's better, the same or worse. It's just a distro I tried a) because I was/am pissed off with SuSE, because RH etc. is crap, and b) it's new. I particularly like it because the base build is tiny, optimised and fast, and I only need to install exactly what I want. Much like Debian, I suppose.
Now I've invested considerable time in getting my head around it, I'm not keen to change!
Cheers, Laurie.