On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:56:08PM +0400, dandantheitman wrote:
> On 26/11/05, Dirk Tilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I like your suggestion of Gentoo being the material every thinkable
> > Linux distribution can be made of.
> > Dir*g*.
>
> I have a sweet spot for Gentoo, have yet to install it but have been
> following its progress for about 2 years now. I like the idea of a
> minimalist install, I like the fact that is versionless, and I like
> the portage install - it reminds me of BSD. Although Daniel Robbins
> the founder now works for Microsoft, I won't hold it against him. The
> boyz are also working on a port of the portege system for apple mac,
> so I use that instead of fink for package management on my Mac.
That is what I most like about it. It is flexible enough to overlay onto
another UNIX system. The Apple ports are just installed into the MacOS.
It's not like having dual boot. You just install Gentoo within Mac OS
and use it only as your software provider.
Dirk Tilger
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