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Gentoo Linux Reloaded

Posted by michael on from the peer-pressure dept.

nitro322 writes "Daniel Robbins, the leading developer for Gentoo Linux, has written an excellent O'Reilly Network article covering many of the various features of Gentoo, what's coming in version 1.4 (due out SOON), and why you should give it a try. If you haven't tried Gentoo yet, what are you waiting for?"

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  1. What am I waiting for? by Spazholio · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm waiting for an install process that isn't quite as big a pain in the ass. I've installed several distros, and am relatively competent, however Gentoo's install is royally messed. Boot from the CD, copy files over, uncompress, install, grab another bz2 file, copy it over, etc. It doesn't have to be GUI, but something less draconian would be nice.

  2. What am I waiting for? by Dixie_Flatline · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm waiting to buy a G4. With OSX. I guess I'm not really waiting to use Gentoo at all. :)

  3. Gentoo advocacy by quigonn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only thing the Gentoo developers are good at is advocacy.

    In fact, the concepts of Gentoo are pretty old, old-fashioned, they're time-consuming and quite crude. People seriously looking for systems that are easy to install and administrate should not consider using Gentoo, at least not in productivity environments.

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  4. What Am I waiting for ??? by No-op · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm waiting for Linux to get where FreeBSD is for ease of building... you linux folks seem to think this whole "building from source" thing is some kind of big deal. sheesh.

    put down the kool-aid, jim...

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  5. Re:some helpful links by Anonymous+Cowrad · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Given that gentoo.org is linked to in the article, is this really all that informative?

    If someone couldn't find this stuff on their own, they're not likely to be capable of building and installing gentoo.

    E-Z Karma formula: Find stuff one click away from the link in the article, list it here.

    Now that's +1 Informative!

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  6. Re:All these weird names by WowTIP · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cunning Linux users prefer Debian or SUSE.

    Please, elaborate. Is it because:

    They don't have the time to compile the whole shebang? (Not that they'd have to)

    They don't like taking advantage of the full performance their system offers?

    Stability?

    Something else?

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  7. Re:no more waiting. by No-op · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    but it's still linux...

    eh. whatever twiddles your nipplenuts.

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