gentoo

[nullpointer at pobox.com (Dan Barrett)]

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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:50, praveen ray wrote:

> how about Gentoo? Has anyone used the distro? Most important, is Gentoo a 
> commercial thing like RedHat that'll vanish into thin air once it's popular?

There are commercial spinoffs from Gentoo, but Gentoo itself is noncommercial 
and as far as I know plans to remain so.
You might try Gentoo; it's tremendously handy -- the key is that Gentoo is a 
meta-distribution, i.e. there isn't a distribution-wide release schedule.  
The Gentoo package tool handles each individual package.
See the superb presentation put together by BLU's own Rajiv Manglani for a 
great overview of Gentoo: http://www.blu.org/meetings/2003/10/
gentoo_presentation.pdf


> Or maybe Windows.

Let's not get carried away here!
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