On Dec 3, 2011 9:14 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > Another plus point is the almost complete devel tools provided out of the > > box: the gcc suite. Now if I happen across an open source project that > > hasn't made it yet to the portage tree, I can just download and compile it > > myself. > > This. Very much this. My dive into Gentoo came as I was fed up with > Debian and Ubuntu having buggy and/or outdated versions of multimedia > encoding packages while trying to configure a box specced for live > transcoding of h.264 to something my PS3 would like. >
Ha, same with me :-) But in my case, it's esoteric stuffs like: latest iptables, xtables-addons (and its ipset modules), fetchmail, postgreSQL, ... and an initramfs-less system :-) Rgds,
