> Gentoo is a great distro, but I have to wonder how long the excitement > and giddiness in the community is going to last. I say that because > Gentoo's idea is a good one, well implemented, and very popular right > now ... but Gentoo is a fun challenge to install Linux more than it is a > stable distribution.
I really like lots of the things you have said, Steve. I use Gentoo on my laptop and I've been using it for quite a while (the only people who have been running it longer that I have that I know of on the UUG are Derek Davis, Byron Clark, and Michael Brailsford). For my main system it's great, and it IS a stable distro. But I would never run it on one of my servers. Why? It's just my preference. Give Gentoo a try, and if you like it, use it. But don't just do things because they are "cool". If you like Redhat, use it. If you like Debian, use it. If you like Mandrake, use it. If you like ChainSaw Linux, use it. If you like Laser5 Linux, use it. The list goes on. [1] I think that lots of the reasons that people have been moving to Gentoo is because of hype, but personally I think it's the most well structured distro I've used (and I've used quite a few). In the end we have to remember that we're running the same OS and apps, and the distro isn't as important as we might think. Until then I'll keep on hearing Jake and Halcrow battle it out between Mandrake and Debian. ;-) Just a few ideas to keep in mind. -Evan [1] http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html -- /********************************************************************\ Evan McNabb: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://evan.mcnabbs.org System Administrator, CS Department, BYU GnuPG Fingerprint: 53B5 EDCA 5543 A27A E0E1 2B2F 6776 8F9C 6A35 6EA5 \********************************************************************/
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