On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 02:40, Kevin Fries wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote: > | Ow Mun Heng wrote: > | | simply wonderful. Want a program? esearch <name>, want to install? > | | emerge <name>. > | > | How's that any different from > | > | # yum info <package> > | # yum install <package> > > The concept behind Gentoo is that everything is compiled as needed. In > THEORY, this should leave you with all the advantages of a custom build > machine, with the ease of an rpm type system. In REALITY, its not that > easy. I agree with you there, but only because I'm a reasonable person. I wouldn't recommend a newbie to work with gentoo. Even after using linux a couple of years, I sometimes find myself at a loss at configuring some stuffs in Gentoo. The reason being that usage of Fedora/RH more or less just made a dummy out of me. A lot of things are taken for granted. > If this distro worked as designed, it would put Fedora to shame. My > experiences are that too many packages get into the portage tree that do > not compile correctly. There are a few of those, not a lot if you talk about servers though. But for desktops, yeah. It takes some getting used to. > This causes huge problems (talk about bleeding > edge!). Ah.. but what you do get is none of the legacy stuffs. You virtually do not need to reinstall your OS from scratch nor have the problem of fixing an upgrade. > imagine what happens > when you need to change from MySQL to Postgre for whatever reason. Or, > lets say that you did not include Digest-MD5 when building OpenLDAP and > Postfix. This creates a considerable amount more work than the Fedora > yum or apt-get system. Dude... that's a overstatement. When you do decide to change over, even in Fedora, you _will_ have problems. Eg: Postfix is not compiled with Mysql support in FC3, if needed, one will still have to re-compile it. Under Gentoo, this is easily controllable and all the user needs to understand is how to use the "USE" flags. > I tried Gentoo in a production environment and liked it. I would have > liked it much more if it came closer to its intended goals. Sad to say, I didn't read that bit. I migrated since oct last year. Can you explain? > Maybe in a > few years they will get the bugs worked out, but until then, stick to > Fedora especially if you are fairly new to Linux. Yes.. I agree. Unless you really want to understand the linux system. It's one up from Linux From Scratch. It'll satisfy your desire to learn. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 00:15:57 up 3:22, 2 users, load average: 0.36, 0.26, 0.42
