On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 19:33, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Gentoo took me almost 4 hours to compile (stage 1, 2, and 3), on a Xeon > 700smp box.
Just remember that Gentoo takes longer to install than a binary distro. > Starting from nothing (Gentoo/Debian) and adding packages takes a long time. > Likewise, > Starting with more crap than I need (Red Hat/etc Put Windows in this > category) and deleting it after the fact (Plus upgrading out of date > packages, and patching) takes just as long as Windows. Upgrading packages in Linux always takes less time that in Windows. Whether it's apt, up2date, urpmi, or YOU it is just a matter of telling it to upgrade and off it goes, d/ls all the packages and installs them. It took me 3 hours to upgrade a Win 98 box since I had to reboot after every upgrade, and once the system came back up there would be an upgrade for the upgrade I just installed. That alone is reason enough for me not to want to use Windows. > Windows 2000 reboots exactly once during the install process. Same as Linux As I said above it's post install that is the killer. > I'm not done with a server for at least a day, regardless of the OS. Maybe > I'm slow. I dunno. But I do find Windows faster. Setting up Printers is > easier with Windows (What's the IP address, OK, Done) is easier than with > Linux (Configure CUPS/LPR/LPRNG/Whatever, Configure Samba, Set up Samba to > autoDL drivers) I don't have any problems with printers. Modern versions of Red Hat/Mandrake/SuSE always seem to detect and configure my printers at home and at work. Samba on the other hand can be a bitch, but once you have it setup for your network you can just copy the config. file to any new installs and it will work fine. Mandrake is pretty good about setting up a simple samba server. You just tell it to let users share files, and with the GUI any user can share a folder in their home dir. just as easily as in Windows. Jesse
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