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On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 22:00 +0200, Peter Karlsson wrote: |
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> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote: |
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> > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at |
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> > supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, |
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> > in terms of when it releases updates, etc. |
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> I find that hard to believe... |
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I know, I would find it hard to believe too. But, just a simple |
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comparision with the Fedora feedlist will show you that this is |
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generally true. Coincidently, I received a bunch of Fedora 3 & 4 email |
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updates earlier today, which shows that Gentoo is behind 23 out of 24 of |
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the updates, some of them quite significantly. Most of them are |
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KDE-related files, so normally I would have never noticed this. I'll |
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keep the list for awhile in case anyone is interested in reviewing it. |
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Of course, you can also view the Fedora feedlist website. I should also |
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add that I noted about eight random and recent examples. Finally, other |
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users who joined the thread have also provided examples. |
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> > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the |
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> > latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any |
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> > perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does anyone |
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> > wish to share a comparison of the two? |
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> The short version: |
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> LFS is for those who wishes to learn how to build an operating system from |
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> scratch. Or for control-freaks (like me). Or a combination of both... :-) |
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> Gentoo is a more practical version of LFS, where "practical" means less |
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> time-consuming, since you don't have to install each package (and it's |
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> dependencies) yourself and there are default settings/scripts that |
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> usually works ok with no/minor tweaking. Though you can install a package |
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> manager in LFS too (like rpm, apt, ports etc.). |
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I think I'm a combination of the two also. |
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Thanks. |
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> HTH |
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> Best regards |
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> Peter K |
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