[ale] gentoo lunix?

[Benjamin Dixon]

Everyone's talking like you have to compile the whole thing. You can do a
stage II install and get it running as quickly as you can a redhat box by
just working through the instructions. As stated, its a great learning
experience if you're unfamiliar with how linux works but its not so
indepth that you have to know every minute detail. Because of this, its
very flexible and customizable.

Ben

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Charles Marcus wrote:

> > 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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