On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 05-Jul-08, at 4:28 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > WHY I RECOMMEND DEBIAN: >> <snip> >> > > WHY I RECOMMEND MANDRIVA > > 1. Controlled by a company > 2. Superior design (Ex: Harddrake) > 3. Stability (Ex: used by my grandmother > 4. URMPI > 5. UCI User Controlled installation WHY I RECOMMEND GENTOO 1. Not controlled by a company 2. Superior design (Ex: portage, revdep-rebuild, USE flags, Parallel fetch (downloads sources in the background when sources are compiling, so upgrading a gentoo and ubuntu/debian box takes the same time) 3. Stability 4. Teaches Patience! 5. Rolling upgrades, no versioning. 6. More *unique* packages than any other distro, (-dev -dbg packages doesnt count) And oh yeah, all that messages scrolling during emerge feels geeky..:D Regards Sudharshan "Binary distros are boring" S Blog : http://www.sudharsh.wordpress.com IRC : Sup3rkiddo @ Freenode, Gimpnet _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
