> Debian is trying to get better on their release cycles however if > you want cutting edge then you won't get it sticking to Debian stable. > BUT you will get a VERY stable release. Even Debian testing will be more > stable than many distros. But for example you won't be able to get KDE > 3.1 unless you want to download the debs from someone else, or download > the source and compile it yourself (i haven't checked if 3.1 is in > testing or unstable but i don't believe so.) > > I would say that they are both great distros. I personally have fallen > in love with gentoo and i would only use Debian if it is a situation > where i can't wait 12 hours for it to compile the latest upgrade to a > package, but they are both awesome distros and offer a ton of choice and > flexability.
Having used both distributions I prefer Debian over Gentoo. I just got so tired of waiting for everything to compile (KDE 3 took like half a day on my powerbook). Apt is immediate, but there are some drawbacks. It takes a very long time for new software to get packaged. (I'm using KDE 3 at home but KDE 2.2 at work because it hasn't been packaged for powerpc.) That said, you set up your computer once, and you will never have to do it again. Maintaining a Debian box is so much easier and faster. So decide who you are. Are you the kind of guy who want's to be bleeding edge, compiling everything, waiting. Or are you the kind of guy who likes to be bleeding edge without the overhead of compiling everything to get it to work? For me Gentoo was fun for a few months, but I've gone back to debian, and I'll never look back. Art ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
