[Gllug] [OT] Appreciation

[Juergen Schinker]

Am Sa, 16.12.2006, 21:20, schrieb Chris Bell:
> On Sat 16 Dec, John G Walker wrote:
>
>>
>> Actually, I'm extremely interested in this debate for practical
>> reasons. Debian seems to be heavily defeating Gentoo, so far.
>>
>    If you decide to try it, the current version in "testing" is Etch, now
> past its scheduled release date because of delays while bugs are sorted,
> but
> it should be declared "stable" soon. The new installer is thought to be
> one
> of the easiest to use ever, but the development team request a report for
> all installations, good or bad.
>    I prefer the minimal "businesscard" installation CD plus a fast
> connection to a Debian mirror, it will download only the kernel and
> software
> you wish to install. I have my own local apt-proxy for all installations
> and
> updates done here, which can also be used to build full installation ISO
> images using jigdo.
>
you could exactly replace Debian with Gentoo only you don't need a apt-proxy
and full ISO can be easily downloaded and your not dependend of what the
debian-devs compiled in and you can have a stable plattform while testing
bleeding edge software...
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