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On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 060101 Chris White wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote: |
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>>> Fedora: 3.45 |
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>>> *Gentoo: 3.75* |
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>>> Mandriva: 3.70 |
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>>> Suse: 3.40 |
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>>> Ubuntu: 3.90 |
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>> Word of advice, things like this are generally flawed. |
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> Quite true, but I believe CB's point was simply |
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> that Gentoo is up there with the other well-known distros for usability. |
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>> The best distro for your needs is the one |
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>> that best suits what you expect your system to do. |
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> Again, people out there should know that Gentoo may well be that distro. |
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> Gentoo is not difficult, but requires on-going attention & input from users: |
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> in return, you get a system which you can tune to do just what you want. |
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> My own recent experience trying to update the OS in my back-up machine was |
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> that Mandriva 2006 wouldn't install, Kubuntu could not be configured, |
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> as it refused to recognise the password (it uses the same for user & root), |
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> while Suse required downloading & writing 5 ISO's; |
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> Ubuntu, of course, is only for those who are willing to use Gnome. |
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> Finally, I got Mandriva 2005 installed & working well enough, |
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> but only with a lot of time & effort (the machine too slow for Gentoo). |
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> OTOH I've been using Gentoo in my main box without problems since 031005 |
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> & have a fully upto-date environment which does just what I want it to do. |
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> Gentoo is probably suitable for a lot more users than realise it. |
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How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop. |
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It's not fast, but it's perfectly adequate. Install did take over a |
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week, I'll admit. |
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I'm curious because I seem to do a lot of squeezing the most out of |
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underpowered computers, and Gentoo has been my friend in these projects. |
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I would like to know what conditions are not well suited to Gentoo. |
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Michael |
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