On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:30:07 -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gentoo is another good one, but rather > more advanced the Slack although the tools are very well documented and once > you learn them you'll never consider going to another distro. I really think > Gentoo is that good.
I agree. No other Linux distro can compare to Gentoo when it comes to the docs, howtos, and general community support. Gentoo solves the binary dependancy issues ( RPMs, yuck! ) Suse, RedHat, and Mandrake suffer from, and along the way create a 'no need to ever upgrade' scenario. Even FreeBSD my second favorite *nix distro recommends a clean install when moving from, say 4.10 to 5.3, but not Gentoo.. it's all progressive and inclusive. This past weekend I upgraded my friend's Gentoo box from 2004.0 to 2004.3 with no issues. etc-update took me a while to finish, but that was to be expected when you got 151 new conf files to merge. > I use it myself for all my workstation and server > needs. Good luck on finding one that suits you, though. Yeah, too bad there's no World of Warcraft for Linux. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
