[buug] Gentoo, Bluecurve and Linux too!

[Brian Sobolak]

johnd said:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:42:47AM -0500, Brian Sobolak wrote:
>> 1.  Has anyone taken Gentoo Linux for a spin?  I know a lot of people
>> on this list are big Debian fans, but Gentoo looks appealing as well.
>
> Yes.  What do you want to know about it?

If you find the package system complete for your needs, if the package
system actually works.

Another question:  if you had a new box and had to choose between Debian
and Gentoo, which would you choose?


> If you have the time (like half a day), Gentoo is good.  If you just
> want to get a server up and running, you may want to pick a different
> distro.
>

I'm good enough at FreeBSD now that I can get through that pretty quickly.
 This wouldn't be a server system, it'd be a desktop (FreeBSD will stay on
the server).  Since there is more desktop software avail. for Linux than
FreeBSD plus FreeBSD tends to be slightly behind on the Xwindows front,
that's why I thought Gentoo might be worth a shot.

brian