On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 06:38, Austin wrote: > On 2003.06.25 18:10, Brook Humphrey wrote: >> really I would not include gentoo in that yet. The barrier to entry >> is to high. I did try it and was utterly unimpressed. Mandrake is >> much better.
> They are experiencing a surge is users right now. Not sure why now > exactly. It's a novelty distro. Very cool idea. Very neat, but it's > a huge amount of work to set up and even more work to maintain (which > surprised me). I can't fathom installing it on all four of my > machines. It would take me like two weeks just to get them all > going. That might be the very reason it's popular: a masochist's distribution. Kind of like yachting, or owning a vintage car. (-: Cheers; Leon
