On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:29:15PM -0800, Jason wrote:
> Is gentoo that bad? I don't mind putting in a bit of
> work, but since it is a work laptop, I mostly want to
> get going with a fairly small amount of downtime.
Don't do it.  Consider which is more effective for your time, a source
based distro or a pre-compiled binary distro.  Oops, didn't install
netcat?  Need ethereal NOW?  Where did that tcpdump get to?

apt-get install them at the speed of bandwidth
or
emerge them at the speed of compilation

Cory

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