I manage development at a small software firm in Australia. We began running Gentoo on our development systems about 8 months ago, and now have 5 systems in our office running Gentoo. Before this we were using a mixture of windows, redhat and mandrake linux.
The primary reason we run Gentoo is because portage is far more user friendly and powerful - far more "useable" - than any other linux package management system. In my opinion Gentoo is also easier to configure than any other distribution. The Gentoo documentation is great too. Whenever we get a new programmer on i have them install their own Gentoo system from stage 1 - it's a great learning experience (especially for developers who are not very familiar with linux to start with). I have often wondered what difference an idiot-proof installer and binary packages stored on the mirrors for portage would make to Gentoo.. I think it would completely alter the make up of the userbase. It would take away from the advantages Gentoo has over other distributions. It would change the focus of the distribution. If there are people out there that want gentoo with a graphical installer or portage with precompiled binaries - let them build their own distribution based on Gentoo. Would that make everyone happy? On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 10:15, William Kenworthy wrote: > Not really: you would be putting a lot of effort in trying to make > gentoo into a mandrake/redhat lookalike. Gentoo's advantages are its > easy update and software management, both of which you are saying are > not needed in the scenario you paint. > > As far as better installer and hardware detection, gentoo has come a > *long* way, but still needs to go further! > > BillK > > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 22:23, Josh McCormack wrote: > > ... > > > > hs with > > the stable, tested Gentoo of that moment, easily updated each 6 months, > > and offer training (& a book) and certification. I'd personally > > lean toward making the CD have a nice installer with hardware detection, > > possibly built off of Knoppix. Anyone else find this interesting? > > > > Josh > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Mark Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cytek Pty Ltd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
