Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 19 January 2007 12:05, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Those are not important in any case where the budget dictates matters
> (i.e. everywhere). Those aren't even good things to bring into play
> against RH and FBSD, because those do that fine, too.

IMHO the only really compelling reason for ever using Gentoo is that at 
almost all times you get exactly what you want, as opposed to what Red 
Hat/Debian/et al  wants you to have.

Red Hat works well if you fall into that category of customer/company 
that is OK with using a stock standard middle-of-the road distro - this 
is easily 95%+ of the market. But, if you need something different, you 
will find that modifying RHEL is a major PITA compared to doing the 
same thing on Gentoo. For example, I work for a database company and we 
are a Red Hat partner. I simply will not support our products if they 
run on anything other than RHEL or SLES, because I don't want the 
hassle. But all my personal machines and my company notebook run 
Gentoo, because part of my job is keeping up with new stuff and only 
Gentoo gets out of the way and lets me do this without restricting me.

So I suppose saf's real question ought to be something like "what do we 
really need that is hard to provide using other (mostly) binary 
distros?"

alan

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