[ale] gentoo lunix?

[Greg]

Can you quantify the comment  "The time spent is well worth it in terms of
performance and stability" and are there any other sources that say Gentoo
is more stable/better performance  ?  Just curious.

TIA
Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Marcus [mailto:CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 7:02 AM
> To: Ale (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [ale] gentoo lunix?
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> > From: Benjamin Dixon [mailto:beatle at arches.uga.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:33 PM
> >
> >> anybody running this distro? any stories...?
>
> > Yes! Its great! The portage package is awesome. I had
> > been a "fan" of redhat for a long time but when I found
> > this distro I immediately switched all my machines over
> > to it. Its the perfect blend of absolute configurability
> > while maintaining enough ease-of-use to get a new machine
> > running in the same or less time it takes to get a bloated
> > RH machine up. Highly recommended.
>
> I wouldn't go quite this far... is it *better* than Redhat?  Imho,
> absolutely and unequivocally - there is no comparison.
>
> But it certainly takes *much* longer to install from scratch, unless maybe
> you are starting off with a custom CD you made yourself that is
> already set
> up for your hardware.  The time spent is well worth it in terms of
> performance and stability, though.
>
> Charles
>
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