[SlugLUG] Gentoo Work

[Matt Thrailkill]

I started using Gentoo around when the first lord of the rings movie
came out, and used it for a year or two after.  I got tired of compiling
along with general flakiness and lack of quality compared to Debian or
Freebsd.

I don't buy the "learning" argument either.  You can learn on most any
distro.  The stuff you learn during the Gentoo install is pretty
stupid... either it is routine stuff like partitioning and formatting,
or it is Gentoo-specific like portage or their init system.  And then
past that, I bet *most* people doing it are blindly following
instructions anyways, which isn't exactly educational.

I generally use Ubuntu and Debian now.  The only thing I miss is how
easy it was to hammer out a basic ebuild for your standard `./configure
&& make && make install` type apps.  I don't know how to build my own
Debian packages.

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 22:31 -0700, cerise at armory.com wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:05:23PM -0700, Rohan Sheth wrote:
> > I'm running ubuntu...because recompiling things because I forgot a flag
> > got a tad dull.
> 
> Geez -- all you have to do is not screw up.  8P
> 
> ccache helps with that too.
> 
> -Phil/CERisE
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