[Wolves]Gentoo was: Another Ubuntu switch

[Simon Burke]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:12:37 +0000 (GMT), fizzy <fizzyorguk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  --- Simon Burke <simon.burke at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wouldnt mind having a go at gentoo myself, it
> > seems well suited to
> > me, im a minimalist at heart so i would never have
> > to spend days
> > compiling after the initial umph.
> 
> That's one of the main reasons I use gentoo, I don't
> want crap I don't need cluttering up my processes or
> my hard disk.  I need to know exactly what is on there
> and exactly what it is doing.  Even slackware doesn't
> do this well enough for me.  I even tried going to
> linux from scratch but the lack of any package
> management annoyed me.  Gentoo gives me package
> management as good as debian (as far as I can see),
> full control of everything going on, is really fast
> and looks really nice (gotta love that frame buffer
> support!)
> 
I had a look into it when it first became a known distro, but never
got round to trying it out. I'll give it ago 2morra probably, now i
have the time :(

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Thanks,
SimonB