Have you ran debian lately, can you even say its a current binary distro 
(current as of redhat 6) and why do people not like using mandrake and redhat 
after they start using linux one they are a company and not a community and 
two RPM's based distro break 

	Is there a way to make like a i586 or i686 based distro but optimize it for 
all the above faster processors ( i know there a reason for -mcpu= )   i 
really dont think i386 and i486 binary's are needed   (debian works great for 
these cause the systems are just about as old as debian current)

	I didnt want to cause a flame war over this,  this is the type of response i 
get from  debian user's  i dont want gentoo  becoming like debian in this 
sence. 

	Another issue is portablity how hard is it to release source based cd's 
(containing all the gentoo source which possible could be updated weekly or 
monthly) this would target mostly dialup linux users or users with restricted 
net access. this was worked on then kinda disapeared . ? 


On Thursday 10 April 2003 06:28 am, leahcim@... wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:13:30AM +0000, Noah Justin Norris wrote:
> > 	Is there any interest to start a binary release of gentoo with
> > precompiled binaries. Im talking the entire source tree i know many
> > people that would switch to gentoo if they would not have to compile
> > every thing from source . not everyone has the fastest computer out
> > there.
>
> I thought it was called Debian? ;o)
>
> Or perhaps, "I'd eat meat, if only it were vegetarian"
>
> Seriously though, I don't see the point, unless you want to sell more
> T-Shirts, there are a plethora of good binary distributions of linux out
> there already and all the downsides you list are what, imo, define Gentoo.
>
> I'd prefer to see gentoo improved as a source-based distribution

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