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On Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:19, Dale wrote: |
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> Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> As someone who started out using Mandrake, I have to say that using |
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> Gentoo has been a LOT easier. Yea, I had to learn how to use Gentoo and |
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> it is different from Mandrake by far but it is a whole lot easier to |
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> manage. I have been using Gentoo for about 2 or 3 years for my desktop |
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> and I would not consider switching to any other distro. I spend a lot |
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> less time messing with my Gentoo install that I did Mandrake. The |
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> upgrade process with Mandrake was . . . . a disaster. From what I |
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> understand Redhat and Mandrake are pretty close. I certainly wouldn't |
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> switch to Redhat then. |
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> As for security, I have had several times that my internet connection |
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> was messed up and the md5 sums didn't match. Portage didn't hesitate to |
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> delete those puppies and let me know that something was changed. It |
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> would seem to me that it would be difficult for someone to change the |
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> source code on one server then change the other files on the rsync |
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> server so they both match up. |
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> Well, that my $0.02 worth. Some of what is being said just doesn't make |
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> sense to me at all. Gentoo is a lot better than some distros. It |
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> certainly beats windoze. |
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> |
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> Dale |
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I can add to this, my first distro was Mandrake too. It was pain to build |
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something from source, gather all the dependencies just because they dont |
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provide such binaries. Gentoo has huge collection of software to choose from |
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and all overlys ... |
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Martins |
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