On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Evan McNabb wrote: > > 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]
If you like UnitedLinux hmm...... > 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 > > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
