| 1 |
On Aug 14, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Zac Medico wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> Paul Hoy wrote: |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
>> Hi all, |
| 6 |
>> This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants |
| 7 |
>> that share certain characteristics. I really like Gentoo and I |
| 8 |
>> like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, |
| 9 |
>> however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, in |
| 10 |
>> terms of when it releases updates, etc. Linux from Scratch looks |
| 11 |
>> very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the latest updates |
| 12 |
>> and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any |
| 13 |
>> perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? |
| 14 |
>> Does anyone wish to share a comparison of the two? |
| 15 |
>> Thanks all, |
| 16 |
>> Paul |
| 17 |
>> |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> Hi Paul, |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what |
| 22 |
> packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages |
| 23 |
> (marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)? |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
> Zac |
| 26 |
> -- |
| 27 |
> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
| 28 |
> |
| 29 |
> |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
Hi Zac, |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
I just grabbed a few semi-random examples from the Fedora feed-list |
| 34 |
(http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/). These are stable updates |
| 35 |
between July and August. |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
|
| 38 |
xpdf-3.00-20 |
| 39 |
vim-common-6.3.086-0 |
| 40 |
openoffice.org-core-1.9.112-1 |
| 41 |
gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4.i386 |
| 42 |
all the mysql files |
| 43 |
all the php files |
| 44 |
xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-37 |
| 45 |
metacity-2.10.0-2 |
| 46 |
|
| 47 |
NetworkManager (no Gentoo version) |
| 48 |
ethereal-gnome (Can't find a Gentoo equivalent) |
| 49 |
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.12-1.13 (no Gentoo version) |
| 50 |
|
| 51 |
zlib (Gentoo has more recent release than Fedora) |
| 52 |
gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.1.i386.rpm (Gentoo has more recent release than |
| 53 |
Fedora) |
Archives