Rebuilding

[Cole Tuininga]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:02, matt galster wrote:
> Thanks, Mark.
> 
> I'd noticed that the SuSE version was put up without support because SuSE
> people wanted one for themselves.  I guess that settles SuSE.  I guess now
> I'll need to decide about gentoo as well.  Anyone have a feel for the
> maturity of that dist?  It isn't like RH or SuSE with a pedigree, AFAIK.

I have a coworker who has been playing with gentoo as of late.  He likes
the fact that the software has a tendency to be cutting/bleeding edge,
and he likes to feel as though he's getting more speed out of everything
because it's compiled specifically for his setup.  Truth be told none of
us can really see a difference.

I will say that the maturity seems lacking to a minor extent.  I played
with it briefly and had the package mechanism (called "emerge") barf on
me a little bit.  Admittedly, that could have been my fault.

In any case, Debian (stable) is very much that - a stable distro. 
However, don't expect cutting edge stuff.  If you have an x86 machine,
you can find alternative apt sources that have newer software - that may
be tougher for an alpha.

I guess it all comes down to "Waddaya gonna do with the system once it's
running?"  8)

-- 
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 and we're in a 1962 Corvair with no brakes."  - Paul Sand

Cole Tuininga
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