On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:57, Ian Bruseker wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:34:01 -0700, Jason Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now I;m not saying I don't like getting my hands dirty, its like > > building your own coffee table,) it will take longer to make but the > > end result is so much more satisfying. What I am saying is that for > > something simple the process took way too long and comparing the > > compiling time required to get system up with the uptime provided with > > a prepackaged distro, I took the prepackaged distro. As the cliche > > goes time is money and a month to get a simple webserver running was > > too much time for me. > > I had a really long reply to Neils' "patience of a saint" comment, but > over lunch everyone else replied and voiced all the thoughts I had, so > no need to rehash it. I came to a similar conclusion as the coffee > table, but my analogy was a bonzai tree. Long time to get it right, > but think of everything you learned along the way. :-) > > You're right, Gentoo might not be the best for a system you need up > right now (though if it's that critical, you probably dropped some > cash into hardware, so compile times shouldn't be as big an argument), > but for me, this is all about the learning experience and getting my > hands dirty. It's my home system (and not the only computer I own, so > it's not like I've lost all computer use while waiting for it to > finish), so I'm taking the time to grow my tree and see where it takes > me.
And if you use knoppix to install from, rather than Gentoo minimal install cd, you'd have a fully finctional system for the whole time anyway. KEv. _______________________________________________ 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
