Posted by
timothy
on from the sane-versioning-system-is-a-plus dept.
Dreadlord writes "Gentoo has released 2004.3 for x86, amd64, hppa, ppc, sparc, and an initial release for ppc64. You can read the information page, the changelog, or go straight to the mirrors, or better yet, the torrents."
Compiling from source
by
petrus4
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· Score: 1, Flamebait
Where are my mod points when I really need them? I've lost count of the number of comments on this article that would get modded Overrated or Redundant if I had some right now.
Anyway, the lamers aside...compiling from source can have a number of advantages...the main one to my mind is stack protection. I also like knowing that what is in the tarball I've downloaded is what is going into my binary...that there hasn't been a download/script kiddie backdoor add/compile to binary package procedure. It's like how I don't tend to go to McDonald's any more because I don't like the possibility of one of the people who work there spitting in my burger before it gets to me...same kind of thing.
I realise however that I'm trying to use rationality here to counter irrationality. The only reason why people here *really* don't like compiling from source is because it is clashes with the completely mindless, apt-getting "Debian IS Linux!" groupthink that I tend to observe on an almost daily basis around here.
I've often wondered why Slashdot's bias is so heavily tilted towards Debian in particular, actually. I'm assuming that for many of you it has a lot more to do with Debian having explicitly received Pope RMS's blessing than because of any genuine technical superiority. I find that deeply pathetic.
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Where are my mod points when I really need them? I've lost count of the number of comments on this article that would get modded Overrated or Redundant if I had some right now.
Anyway, the lamers aside...compiling from source can have a number of advantages...the main one to my mind is stack protection.
I also like knowing that what is in the tarball I've downloaded is what is going into my binary...that there hasn't been a download/script kiddie backdoor add/compile to binary package procedure. It's like how I don't tend to go to McDonald's any more because I don't like the possibility of one of the people who work there spitting in my burger before it gets to me...same kind of thing.
I realise however that I'm trying to use rationality here to counter irrationality. The only reason why people here *really* don't like compiling from source is because it is clashes with the completely mindless, apt-getting "Debian IS Linux!" groupthink that I tend to observe on an almost daily basis around here.
I've often wondered why Slashdot's bias is so heavily tilted towards Debian in particular, actually. I'm assuming that for many of you it has a lot more to do with Debian having explicitly received Pope RMS's blessing than because of any genuine technical superiority. I find that deeply pathetic.