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080423 Net Warrior wrote: |
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> Gentoo seems to be (my first 24 hours) a very robust system |
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Yes, it is very reliable & this list is usually helpful. |
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> tried ubuntu, a mess |
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That was my own reaction on the 1 occasion I tried it (smile). |
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> I come from a freebsd land and gentoo has all I have in freebsd, |
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> portage is what I like most, the way to be upto date with ports, |
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> emerge does a good job, like portsnap/pkg_tools does for freebsd. |
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IIRC Gentoo was based on FreeBSD, though it has developed a lot since. |
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> The only thing I found weird is the installation, |
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> the need to do all the stuff by hand, |
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> just a basic install like bsd does ( 100 MB ) |
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> and then install the rest fro the network would be nice, |
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> I'm too lazy to do paritioning/swap/choot |
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Think of it as like joining the Freemasons: |
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the trial-by-fire of installing Gentoo keeps out the unfit (grin). |
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I made 5 pp of notes when installing on my newly-built box 2007-10-xx , |
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but now everything is working even better than after my 1st install 2003 . |
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