On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:55:23 -0700, Niels Voll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wow - you Gentoo guys have patience fit for a saint ! > > ...Niels
I'd agree. My first and only experience with Gentoo was over a year ago. Before that I've used RedHat6.x-7.x and Mandrake8-9. I was installing on a P200 with 128mb ram. I wanted optimize what I could so thus Gentoo was my descision. Even with the beautiful documentation Gentoo had I still had some small issues with the install... nothing I couldn't handle, (but I found it odd where the installation would fail at diffrent places each time). However the thing that got me was that after a month of install Gentoo I still didn't have a working web server, (a month of spending 1 - 2 hours almost every night.) After a month I finially got fed up and decided to give another distro a whirl. Out came the SuSE FTP install and having never tried SuSE before it took me less than 1/2 hour to have a functional webserver with very few unneeded packages installed. I have since moved to Debian, (debootstrap install via knoppix.) My thoughts on Gentoo is that the system would be very nice on a fast machine but on a slower machine, (the machines that need the speed optimization,) it takes *WAY* too much time to install. I might try Gentoo again down the road but only when installs would be less painful. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
