On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Paul Hoy wrote > This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants > that share certain characteristics. > > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good > job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, > such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, etc. > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly > support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any > one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point- > of-view? Does anyone wish to share a comparison of the two?
Look at it this way, if you're competent to build Linux-From-Scratch, you should have no problems whatsoever building from tarballs the few packages you can't find in Gentoo, and putting them in /usr/local or /opt. Heck, I was doing the... ./configure --with-various-options && make && make install schtick back in my Redhat days. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
