[Lincs] multitude of sins

[MD]

On 9/19/05, Pete Hunt <pete at ninjafriendly.com> wrote:
> 
> Richard Williams wrote:
> 
> > Anyone got any thoughts/comments on the Gentoo distro - complete newbie
> > but believe in learning by finding out what goes on "under the bonnet" -
> > of course I may live to regret that last statement. :)
> >
> > Richard
> 
> <religious war>
> 
> Personally, (having played with Gentoo for a few months) it seems a lot
> of faffing about compiling stuff for little return on the time spent
> (from an increase in / optimised performance argument). If you really
> want that use Linux From Scratch.
> 
> </religious war>



I quite agree.

I once tried installing gentoo on an Epia Nehemiah system. It took about a 
day to download and compile a basic system. Of course, the next thing I did 
was try to install vim, but unfortunately, I accidentally chose gvim 
instead. I left it for the best part of a week before I realised it was 
trying to download and compile a whole X install. 

My Epia system now has Debian installed. It took one afternoon. 

IMHO, Gentoo is probably best reserved for 64 bit chips or unusual 
architectures. I definitely wouldn't recommend it as a first linux distro.

> If you fancy the idea of using Gentoo, use it. You may be jumping in at
> the moderately deep end but you'll learn useful stuff and it is a distro
> that's designed to be poked and prodded about. Just ensure that you
> still have a means of Googling when you break something.
> 

I like that: "WHEN you break something." :)

Of course, now that I think about it, you don't have to compile everything 
you install in gentoo. Maybe I should try breaking out those isos again...

-- 
Thanks,
-Matt Dancer <barodato at gmail dot com>
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