Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 01, 2004 04:04 PM
Gentoo is great for the tweaker, the "I want everything optimised and compiled for my system cause I want to sqeese those last 2 nanoseconds speed out of it" type. Gentoo is in my opinion a great distribution, but -WAY- too slow to manage. Compiling OpenOffice and you've wasted your youth doing that, cause on a small system it takes ~24 hours. Now the upsides to Gentoo is a lot of the packages are available as easy to install emerge commands, far more -new- packages than many of the others.
Debian is my distro of preference, due to several reasons. It's easy to install, it's not hard to install, Slackware is easier to install than debian, gentoo is harder (a lot if you don't read the manual). Maintaining Debian is a dream, you don't have to wait days for it to update the entire system. Running Stable you're pretty certain that there are no real issues with the packages etc.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 01, 2004 04:04 PMGentoo is in my opinion a great distribution, but -WAY- too slow to manage.
Compiling OpenOffice and you've wasted your youth doing that, cause on a small system it takes ~24 hours.
Now the upsides to Gentoo is a lot of the packages are available as easy to install emerge commands, far more -new- packages than many of the others.
Debian is my distro of preference, due to several reasons.
It's easy to install, it's not hard to install, Slackware is easier to install than debian, gentoo is harder (a lot if you don't read the manual).
Maintaining Debian is a dream, you don't have to wait days for it to update the entire system. Running Stable you're pretty certain that there are no real issues with the packages etc.
Debian > * When it comes to what distro to use for a server<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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