On 4 July 2012 11:52, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-07-04 02:34, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 00:42:22 Iain Buclaw wrote: >>> >>> Just so long as it isn't Gentoo. :o) >>> >>> Afterall, out of all of the linux distros out there, I would say that >>> gentoo takes the least time to mess around... </sarcasm> >> >> >> LOL. I did use Gentoo for a while, but I got sick of things breaking on >> updates. Arch provides most of the benefits that Gentoo does but defaults >> to >> binary packages while letting you build them from source if you want to >> rather >> than making _everything_ be built from source. And surprisingly, Arch >> seems to >> do a better job of providing bleeding edge packages quickly than Gentoo >> does >> (at least for the packages that I care about). >> >> But Linux distros are one of those things that you can argue about >> endlessly. >> To each their own I guess. > > > I agree. I tried LFS and then added portage, which basically made it into > Gentoo. I general I like the idea about Gentoo but it just takes too much > time. These days I'm staying away from Gentoo and using Ubuntu when I'm > using Linux. But we all know that the best Unix-like system is Mac OS X :) >
Another platform that we need to start testing extensively with GDC. :-) Anyone willing to jump onboard? -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
