> 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.
What? I had an operational web server in 5 days on a P166/64MB RAM. This was in like 2 hrs the first day and an hour MAX after that each day after to emerge packages and configure the system. I did the same on a P2-266 in 2 days using distcc [had my P4-2GHz laptop helping]. I bet I could get it running on a 486-33 in under a month...in fact I might do that just to see. > 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 disagree. The resulting system is worth the wait. I just had a P166 given to me that will be running Gentoo as a machine to play little games on. Unnecessary? Absolutely, but portage kicks that much butt IMHO. > > I might try Gentoo again down the road but only when installs would be > less painful. > as will many I suspect. You could always do a stage3 and then set up a cron emerge system, emerge world scenario. One by one your binary packages will be replaced by source compiled ones as they are upgraded. _______________________________________________ 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
