Chaps, Another thing I must say is that I object in the highest order some the mail sent out regarding this topic which basically say good riddance to the users who have switch to Gentoo as they caused loads problems etc etc. This is short sighted and I hope the people (idiots??) who said this have no leadership real role within the Debian developer community.
What we need to accept is there is a (percieved??) problem, or problems, with Debian as it stands today, these being (mainly) Hard to install (rubbish obviously) Out of date (this _is_ true) Slow to update (this _is_ true) Hard to configure (depends upon your view-point) The reasons I see people switch to Gentoo are : Its more fun Alot more up to date Easier to customise, down to which libraries you want to support Gentoo is still hard to configure if you are only used to Red Hat or Mandrake, easy if you used to Debian, Slackware etc. IMHO Debian is too slow to put out new releases. I run testing to ages with no problems, ever. Sure on my unstable box things went south at times but I expect that and can fix it, but testing is very solid, as solid as, say, Red Hat. I'm tempted to say that Debian has gotten too big, has too many bosses (to coin a phrase) and is hampered at times by its own policy. I've been using Debian for years and have seen it grown alot over time. However, it seems to me that the only _big_ thing Debian has on its side these days is dpkg/apt. Everything else is out of date, a nightmare to setup and, to be honest, not fun anymore. I want this to change, but to achieve that I think big changes are required from the ground up otherwise Debian _will_ go the way of Slackware. That all said, it will be interesting to see how Gentoo copes when it gets larger. I think it will cope better than we have purely because it source only and that makes life slightly easier. We'll have to see. My pennys worth Jon __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
