Sławek should be able to extol on the strengths of Gentoo better than I, but I will give it a shot...
One of Gentoo's strengths is the use of the explicit dependency graphs defined in the ebuilds. This allows you to check daily if there are any updates on your system, and to easily update the entire system. Portage also give you very fine control to lock out specific versions or overload their build flags without having to resort to figuring out all the command line arguments for config, make, etc. My personal experience is that Gentoo is a pain to do the initial setup, but after that it is breze to maintain. The machine I am working on at the moment is 7 years old, and running of the same basic config that I have updated and maintained daily. I should also mention that it is not required, but it is nice when the system tells you that there is a new/updated version of the kernel, LCNC, or even more insidious a ssh upgrade due to some security patch. Basically, it comes down to the fine level of control, repeatability, and reportability that the tools allow. I will have to think a bit to see what might be the advantage over Debian or Ubuntu. One interesting point someone pointed me to was that Google's Chrome OS ditched their Ubuntu based distro and rebased it on Gentoo. Not sure what motivated that, but I would guess that it was the ability to control every single package build on the fly. EBo -- On Mar 2 2014 9:37 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > Hi EBo, > > I'm ignorant when it comes to Gentoo. > > What would/could Gentoo bring to the table that is lacking in a > Ubuntu > or a Debian based system? > > Thanks, > > Dave > > On 3/2/2014 10:19 AM, EBo wrote: >> Sławek and I have started a project over on SourceForge called >> GentooCNC. We are still in the planning stages, but I thought I >> would >> invite the other Gentoo users out there to join in the fun. >> >> Cheers, >> >> EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
