On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:40:43PM +0000, Dennis Soper wrote: > > I highly recommend Gentoo. Yes, it's a source compile, but the portage > system rocks. The stock kernel that comes with it has low-latency and > preempt built-in, and so far, everything has worked out of the box > (including GnuCash and 3d acceleration, believe it or not). The package > management takes the best parts of apt and the FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports > system and makes dealing with dependencies trivial-- it does it for you.
So, in BSD land there's the notion of a base system, and then you add packages. This makes basic installs simple. I can install OBSD in about 10 minutes on modern hadrware. Does gentoo do this or do you have to pick and choose the base system? Do you have to build everything, or is there an actual binary basic install? I think the last time I checked it out, the only way to install was with 'emerge' or something like that. I'd like to replace the Windows partition on my laptop with something I might actually use, but I probably don't have enough space for sources + compiling (unless perhaps the portage system cleans up wrkobjdirs after packaging/installation). -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
