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On Thursday 26 September 2002 16:32, Mark Guertin wrote: |
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> Not true at all, Gentoo is also the whole init system (scripting and |
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> tmpfs sides), try doing env-update or rc-update add sshd default on |
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> another distro. |
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Of course that is also what defines a distribution although I could imagine |
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gentoo providing different profiles that have for example different init |
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scripts or other architecture changes. That would be gentoo to the extreme. |
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> There is a lot more to Gentoo than portage or the ebuilds we supply for |
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> users. It is unlike any of the RedHat or the knockoffs (Mandrake, etc) |
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> in that Gentoo actually brought something _new_ to the table, and it was |
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> more than a little something. |
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You are right. Gentoo brought flexibility and power (for the user and the |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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