Posted by: Administrator
on September 24, 2004 09:19 AM
Gentoo is great, it is the next best thing to doing it all from scratch, The best thing about it is the community of programmers and patrons who involve themselves on an almost hourly basis to the development of ebuilds and portage tweaks. This is where Gentoo really sets itself appart from the other distrobutions. I'm a regular contributor in the bugs department and enjoy helping others in the forums when I can.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "The lack of an installation utility" as Gentoo is meant to be a do-it-yourself Linux flavor. People have created installation versions (search Gentoo forums for installs).
"Overall, Gentoo Linux 2004.2 is the same as it's been since 1.4 -- it's still a pain to install" I suppose this is true if the only time you ever installed it was twice (first being your 1.4 review and then again for this one). Though for most of the seasoned Gentoo users (and ones who needed to install it 15 times at first due to one mishap or another) the installation process is quite simple. I have my own method of installation which is very easy to follow and I have given it to friends who agree.
I did like your opening paragraph and I must say it lured me in as it should, however you lost me many times by changing what appeared to be an experienced view point.
Gentoo Linux as a server works great as well, I'm running a mail server with it. "..the less opportunity there is for broken circular dependencies and other Portage-killing debacles." In regads to this startment, I'm assuming you installed some packages which were masked and you are referring to updating the system? The ebst method for such things is to install them without the USE flag and rather setup your package mask file in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/portage which keeps a record of masked packages you allow to be compiled.
I'm most confused at what you said here though:
Statement #1 --
"Gentoo will probably never replace Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, or FreeBSD in the Web hosting market,"
Statement #2 -- (same paragraph)
"the OS itself has enough fans to merit a place for it in the server market. In addition to hosting companies, there are also about a half dozen custom hardware companies worldwide that offer Gentoo Linux preinstalled on new computer systems, both for desktop and server use."
Pardon the large quote but to me when you say "..In addition to hosting companies.." that means you feel Gentoo has a place in the hosting market, and I think you might just regret saying Gentoo will never replace those other distrobutions. You did through the 'probably' in there, so kudos for remembering to cross your fingers behind your back, thats great journalism!
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Posted by: Administrator on September 24, 2004 09:19 AMI don't quite understand what you mean by "The lack of an installation utility" as Gentoo is meant to be a do-it-yourself Linux flavor. People have created installation versions (search Gentoo forums for installs).
"Overall, Gentoo Linux 2004.2 is the same as it's been since 1.4 -- it's still a pain to install" I suppose this is true if the only time you ever installed it was twice (first being your 1.4 review and then again for this one). Though for most of the seasoned Gentoo users (and ones who needed to install it 15 times at first due to one mishap or another) the installation process is quite simple. I have my own method of installation which is very easy to follow and I have given it to friends who agree.
I did like your opening paragraph and I must say it lured me in as it should, however you lost me many times by changing what appeared to be an experienced view point.
Gentoo Linux as a server works great as well, I'm running a mail server with it. "..the less opportunity there is for broken circular dependencies and other Portage-killing debacles." In regads to this startment, I'm assuming you installed some packages which were masked and you are referring to updating the system? The ebst method for such things is to install them without the USE flag and rather setup your package mask file in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/portage which keeps a record of masked packages you allow to be compiled.
I'm most confused at what you said here though:
Statement #1 --
"Gentoo will probably never replace Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, or FreeBSD in the Web hosting market,"
Statement #2 -- (same paragraph)
"the OS itself has enough fans to merit a place for it in the server market. In addition to hosting companies, there are also about a half dozen custom hardware companies worldwide that offer Gentoo Linux preinstalled on new computer systems, both for desktop and server use."
Pardon the large quote but to me when you say "..In addition to hosting companies.." that means you feel Gentoo has a place in the hosting market, and I think you might just regret saying Gentoo will never replace those other distrobutions. You did through the 'probably' in there, so kudos for remembering to cross your fingers behind your back, thats great journalism!
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