Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
>In other words, it's the slowest most unstable distro you've ever used,
>as for being easy to maintain, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on any
>.deb or .rpm based distro.

Maybe you should read up on it before you say things like that.

Gentoo only releases the stable verions of everything. You can get all the
unstable versions of everything if you like though. So it's very stable.

Try and do a search for gentoo benchmarks and I think you'll find that
gentoo out performs most other distros.

The only slow part about gentoo is installation, 'cause everything is done
by compiling the source. It's all done with an "emerge" function that
downloads the source and compiles it to the specifications you have set in a
USE var.

I'm sorry, but apt-get isn't the answer all. You have to install the
program, then program-devel, then program-snmp, then program-mysql, then
program-whatever. It's annoying.

It's all a matter of opinion though. How mad would you be if I told you I'm
writing this from Win2k Pro, with MS Outlook, sent from MS Exchange?

Ha!

Everything has it's advantages.

-Josh


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