OT: I can't believe it....

[Ryan Nix]

Thanks, Bill. I might give Gentoo a shot in the future.  For now, I'm 
going to await Yellow Dog 4 and just use yum to keep things up to date.

Cheers-

Ryan

Longman, Bill wrote:

>>Thanks again Stefan for the run down on Gentoo and system cloning.  
>>Using Gentoo along with Netboot (for desktops) might be the 
>>best combo 
>>here from what I have seen on this list.  Gentoo sure sounds 
>>like a pain 
>>to setup but another friend of mine who uses x86 said Gentoo is 
>>definitely the way to go.
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>Ryan, I've been using Unix for almost fifteen years, Linux for about three
>of those. I have used several different Linux distros: SuSE, Mandrake, RH,
>Slackware, Gentoo, Debian and even FreeBSD. [All these on x86].
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>Gentoo is worth running. Code dependency headaches [almost] disappear.
>Performance is excellent. It's just a slight "paradigm shift" {cough, spit,
>choke. Did I say "paradigm shift"}. Boot from a CD and get your system able
>to talk on the net. Pull yourself up onto the next rung. Grab the stuff you
>need and run/compile it. Next rung. Compile those and Bob's your uncle.
>
>The best part is, there's no "devel" packages you need to install. You've
>got them, unless you started with a stage 3 system, because you compiled the
>code for everything you are running. That means all the code for your
>libraries is already there. All the code for your apps is available. If you
>want to add a new application that uses those libraries, fine, it's just one
>install.
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>One thing I did notice, on a dual Opteron here, is the backlog of masked
>applications. Perhaps it's because the Opteron is fairly new, but I hope the
>PPC side is better kept.
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