On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:37, Dale Anderson wrote: > Exactly atm gentoo is a huge mess, I would not put it quite as strongly as that, but do agree that sometimes things do not go quite as smoothly as they used to when drobbins was at the helm. Sometimes it's not a bad idea to have a difficult perfectionist running the show. That said I am not going to change to anything else atm.
> I used to be an avid fan as a few > list members can probably recall , if your using debian might as well > stick with it , it does the job and nicely once you get to know it , all > distros (yes including SuSe ) have there flaws (alot (tm) in many > cases), Debian imho still has the most reliable PM exisiting atm , and > you usually have to do something really bad (tm) to blow an install up. The problem in my exp. is that "really bad (tm)" can be as minor as just wanting to run a app which is less than a couple of years old. Debian is ideal if you want to run a totally bog-standard system from 2 or 3 years ago and know all the Debianisms, but if you want anything within 6 leagues of the bleeding edge then you risk encountering real problems. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
