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On Fri, 18 May 2007 18:04:16 +0000 |
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arnuld <geek.arnuld@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> i want to know whether Gentoo has "simplicity" or "KISS and clean" |
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> structure in its design as an OS ? this is the only thing that is |
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> stopping me from using Gentoo. Gentoo philosophy says *nothing* about |
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> simplicity, it talks only about customisation. any idea of if KISS is |
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> present in Gentoo design ? |
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In my humble opinion, gentoo is the only distribution worth considering |
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when it comes to keeping the system simple. Any other distro, and |
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you're going to have to pick through lists of packages disabling all |
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that you know you don't need; with gentoo, you can install what you |
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know you _do_ need, and go from there. The initial footprint is a |
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little bigger at first because of the developent tools you need to |
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build your own software, but if you want to keep it small you'll have |
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much more success with gentoo than with anything else. |
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The one other caveat is that portage is bulky, slow, and |
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space-consuming. But there are many ways to combat this, and it's |
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really not an issue if you have lots of gentoo hosts. |
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