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051121 Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> Daniel da Veiga schreef: |
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>> Gentoo is not easy, its not simple |
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>> and its not designed or the best distro to start in the Linux world. |
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> What's so hard about it, as opposed to any other Linux distro, |
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> once you get past the install issue? |
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In a word, 'maintenance'. No, that's not hard for you & me, |
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but your typical Linux novice is going to have to learn a lot |
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to keep his/her box as upto-date as s/he would using a binary distro. |
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For the latter, you just download the new Kubuntu/etc ISO every few months, |
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whereas with Gentoo either you choose which pkgs to update & when, |
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-- eg do I get KDE 3.4.3 while it's ~x86 or wait till it's 'stable' |
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or wait a bit longer till 3.5.0 is ~x86 or ... ? (that's my approach) -- |
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or you blindly do 'emerge world' & hope for the best (I never 'emerge world'). |
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Also, you have to configure & install new kernel versions |
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or can you trust it to Genkernel (which I have never used)? |
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I couldn't think of using anything but Gentoo on my workaday box, |
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but for my back-up machine it's likely to be Mandrake 2006 , |
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as the CPU is too slow for painless Portage & I update it only once/year. |
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Newcomers to Linux should be advised to try something better than Linspire, |
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but should not be introduced to Gentoo until they're used to UNIX methods |
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& are prepared to invest a bit of their on-going time in sysadmin. |
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