Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

[Philip Webb]

090518 bn wrote:
> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>> With binary distros, you are stuck with whatever their makers give you.
> whatever distro you're using, Linux is Linux. You're not locked out.
> If my xorg.conf doesn't work (it happened with Ubuntu),
> I can edit it on Ubuntu just like on Gentoo.
> I can compile source packages on Ubuntu too, if needed.

But don't you immediately run into all the settings & assumptions
which the creators of that release of that distro have made for you ?
Can you have multiple versions of a library (as via Gentoo's slots) ?

You're also stuck with their kernel:
how many users of Mandriva compile their own kernels ?
how safe is it to use your own kernel with the rest of the distro ?

You also have to accept their version of big items like KDE :
if you use Slackware, you've got to use KDE 4 , like it or not (me: not);
with Gentoo, you can go on using KDE 3 & its pieces much longer.

If you use Ubuntu, you've got to accept their eccentric & questionable
attitude to passwords, esp that they don't have a separate root password.
I find that a piece of cheap popularisation contrary to UNIX principles.

So if you use Mandriva or Slackware -- good binary distros both -- ,
you accept what's been cooked for you & are one of the crowd of diners.
If you use Gentoo, you enjoy your own home cooking.

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