Bro', you're still in the CLI. No desktop. No openoffice. Nothing. It's just a toy, with no functionality whatsoever. I am sorry, I am not getting your point.
You must have a supercomputer then, because 10 days is not unreallistic. I had an Athlon 2000+ a couple of years ago, and it took 7 days to emerge the basic system and a decent desktop, with productivity apps. Not all of use use Vi as a wordprocessor. Somehow it just doesn't work that well.
I few years ago it was very exciting to install and use Gentoo. It was a great learning experience and, truth be told, I owe a lot of what I know about troubleshooting to Gentoo. Which brings us to my point :
There really is not a practical reason to use Gentoo on a day to day basis. The reason why a lot of people like it is the same reason why many more hate it. Having bleeding edge packages makes it very unstable. It took me three days to install the new release. Three days. Installing a basic desktop should not take 3 days!! That is just insane. I installed it on a 3.4 GHz pentium D with 4 gigs of ram and sata II drives. After installing it, most apps worked, but a few others did not, or were un-emergeable for whatever reason.
Right now I am using ArchLinux, which uses Gentoo ebuilds, as my main desktop. I also have VectorLinux on a different system. I'll tell you what, there is no performance difference between these two and Gentoo, they each took less than 30 minutes to setup. Arch, in particular, is extremely easy. After following the the very short basic system install, it was just a matter of pacman -Syu, pacman -S xorg kde gdm, nano -w rc.conf, reboot, done!! 25 minutes total. 686 optimized, rock solid desktop.
Gentoo has some sentimental value. But just as BSD and the Ports system, they have a place in the memory of those of us that enjoyed them. Gentoo makes no personal or business sense. It's not about ease of install, but the whole thing is just a waste of time. It had value when it came out. It served a purpose, but right now, it's just old and unstable.
Please, guys, don't be mad. Just think about it objectively and you will reach a similar conclusion.
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Bro', you're still in the CLI. No desktop. No openoffice. Nothing. It's just a toy, with no functionality whatsoever. I am sorry, I am not getting your point.
You must have a supercomputer then, because 10 days is not unreallistic. I had an Athlon 2000+ a couple of years ago, and it took 7 days to emerge the basic system and a decent desktop, with productivity apps. Not all of use use Vi as a wordprocessor. Somehow it just doesn't work that well.
I few years ago it was very exciting to install and use Gentoo. It was a great learning experience and, truth be told, I owe a lot of what I know about troubleshooting to Gentoo. Which brings us to my point : There really is not a practical reason to use Gentoo on a day to day basis. The reason why a lot of people like it is the same reason why many more hate it. Having bleeding edge packages makes it very unstable. It took me three days to install the new release. Three days. Installing a basic desktop should not take 3 days!! That is just insane. I installed it on a 3.4 GHz pentium D with 4 gigs of ram and sata II drives. After installing it, most apps worked, but a few others did not, or were un-emergeable for whatever reason. Right now I am using ArchLinux, which uses Gentoo ebuilds, as my main desktop. I also have VectorLinux on a different system. I'll tell you what, there is no performance difference between these two and Gentoo, they each took less than 30 minutes to setup. Arch, in particular, is extremely easy. After following the the very short basic system install, it was just a matter of pacman -Syu, pacman -S xorg kde gdm, nano -w rc.conf, reboot, done!! 25 minutes total. 686 optimized, rock solid desktop. Gentoo has some sentimental value. But just as BSD and the Ports system, they have a place in the memory of those of us that enjoyed them. Gentoo makes no personal or business sense. It's not about ease of install, but the whole thing is just a waste of time. It had value when it came out. It served a purpose, but right now, it's just old and unstable. Please, guys, don't be mad. Just think about it objectively and you will reach a similar conclusion.