Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

[Jesús Guerrero]

El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 17:19, Grant Edwards escribió:
> On 2009-02-04, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:25:49 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Except that what you build and maintain isn't a "distro", it's
>>> a single machine.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>
> Do you distribute what you're building as a something for
> others to use to install Linux?  I don't, and none of the other Gentoo
> users I know do.  They're all building and maintaining installations on
> individual machines.

Not true at all. Lost of uses do stage4 and stage5 stuff to deploy
them in lots of places. Even the official stage3 have been built using
Gentoo of course, and the livecds using the Gentoo tools and catalyst.
So, as you see, some of the stuff created with this metadistro is deployed
in thosands of machines. Oh, and don't forget about the drobbins stuff
in funtoo, which is also built using to a lesser degree the Gentoo stuff.

There are some other projects that build a distro starting from a
Gentoo base which could fit better in your concept of what a distro
is, like vidalinux or sabayon.

But even if that was the case, that doesn't change the fact that
you are building your own distro using the Gentoo tools.

A linux distribution is not called so because it's distributed
world wide. A linux distribution is defined as a linux kernel
with some userland tools. Even if it's just a kernel with vi on
a floppy.

So, gentoo is a metadistro that you use to build a distro. Even
if the only consumer for that distro is going to be you. It's
like writing songs. They are songs, even if no one ever hear
them but you and your parents, or your girlfriend, or whomever.



-- 
Jesús Guerrero