On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:34:01 -0700, Jason Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I;m not saying I don't like getting my hands dirty, its like > building your own coffee table,) it will take longer to make but the > end result is so much more satisfying. What I am saying is that for > something simple the process took way too long and comparing the > compiling time required to get system up with the uptime provided with > a prepackaged distro, I took the prepackaged distro. As the cliche > goes time is money and a month to get a simple webserver running was > too much time for me. > I had a really long reply to Neils' "patience of a saint" comment, but over lunch everyone else replied and voiced all the thoughts I had, so no need to rehash it. I came to a similar conclusion as the coffee table, but my analogy was a bonzai tree. Long time to get it right, but think of everything you learned along the way. :-)
You're right, Gentoo might not be the best for a system you need up right now (though if it's that critical, you probably dropped some cash into hardware, so compile times shouldn't be as big an argument), but for me, this is all about the learning experience and getting my hands dirty. It's my home system (and not the only computer I own, so it's not like I've lost all computer use while waiting for it to finish), so I'm taking the time to grow my tree and see where it takes me. Ian _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
