Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 16, 2006 05:44 AM
Gentoo is a meta-distribution. With it, you build a GNU/Linux system comprised of the software you chose, with the compilation features you desire.
As far as installers go, I'm still against a graphical installer. Gentoo doesn't need more users, it needs more *skilled* users who can contribute. The wiki is full of wrong info and Bugzilla is littered with bugs that have resulted from a user error, not a system problem. If you find it hard to install Gentoo, you have limited Linux/*NIX knowledge and should stick to a binary distribution anyways. If you can't make/format partitions, use tar, compile a kernel and use a command-line editor, Gentoo isn't for you.
Also, to the person who posted that the packages are out of date -- what?? Gnome 2.14, KDE 3.5, Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.1, Firefox 1.5.0.3, Xorg 7.1RC2, etc. are all available in Portage. Xgl and Compiz are available from a community project (and probably served as one of the leading early Xgl testing/bugsquashing groups). If you write your own ebuilds, it's even easy to routinely build software from its CVS/SVN repo. What else and how much newer could you want?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 16, 2006 05:44 AMAs far as installers go, I'm still against a graphical installer. Gentoo doesn't need more users, it needs more *skilled* users who can contribute. The wiki is full of wrong info and Bugzilla is littered with bugs that have resulted from a user error, not a system problem. If you find it hard to install Gentoo, you have limited Linux/*NIX knowledge and should stick to a binary distribution anyways. If you can't make/format partitions, use tar, compile a kernel and use a command-line editor, Gentoo isn't for you.
Also, to the person who posted that the packages are out of date -- what?? Gnome 2.14, KDE 3.5, Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.1, Firefox 1.5.0.3, Xorg 7.1RC2, etc. are all available in Portage. Xgl and Compiz are available from a community project (and probably served as one of the leading early Xgl testing/bugsquashing groups). If you write your own ebuilds, it's even easy to routinely build software from its CVS/SVN repo. What else and how much newer could you want?
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