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[Erich Blume]

Hah - I've never heard anyone refer to Gentoo as an "easier" system. I mean,
I suppose if you use everything default out-of-the-box it's pretty
straightforward, but if you're like me and only use portage for core system
components (gcc, init, stuff like that), things can get kinda hairy.

IMHO.

~Erich

On 2/17/07 2:17 PM, "Alejandro Wainzinger" <aikawarazuni at gmail.com> wrote:

> The last time I dealt with debian, it was my friend who wanted it on
> his laptop before 2.6.17 which included bcm43xx drivers natively, so I
> had fun trying to make his wireless work.  Not a bad distro, just
> terribly confusing.  As compared to:
> 
> emerge --sync, emerge -Davut world, etc-update, revdep-rebuild
> 
> It's just so simple and straightforward, I'm too lazy to work with
> anything more complicated or less effective.
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