Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

[Pandu Poluan]

On Dec 3, 2011 9:14 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
> > Another plus point is the almost complete devel tools provided out of
the
> > box: the gcc suite. Now if I happen across an open source project that
> > hasn't made it yet to the portage tree, I can just download and compile
it
> > myself.
>
> This. Very much this. My dive into Gentoo came as I was fed up with
> Debian and Ubuntu having buggy and/or outdated versions of multimedia
> encoding packages while trying to configure a box specced for live
> transcoding of h.264 to something my PS3 would like.
>

Ha, same with me :-)

But in my case, it's esoteric stuffs like: latest iptables, xtables-addons
(and its ipset modules), fetchmail, postgreSQL, ... and an initramfs-less
system :-)

Rgds,