Hi there,
Nick Rout wrote:
No-one will ever win the "my distro is better than yours, compiling is better than binaries" war, but don't forget that we gentooistas have to download the source code, you have to download the (static) binary. IMHO that part is six of one half a dozen of the other.
I'd still prefer a nice GUI-driven rpm tool, but compiling isn't as scary as I thought. Best thing is to install every devel lib on the distro CD's from scratch...I just did that after upgrading my hard disk to a nice Ultra133 60MB/sec scorcher and reinstalling 'drake... Compiling is much easier now (no more missing libs to install!)...
I have never understood why people want broadband for gentoo, but will happily install a binary distro that immediately wants 500M of updates and are happy with a modem. gentoo and al the sources for a pretty full install are avilable from copyleft (Dunedin) on one dvd.
I have never fully understood why some choose to update essentially as the code is typed! For me its about getting a stable working system, and then just using it! The core mandrake 10.0 for me works 99% (few wee issues), so I see no point updating unless something really major is gonna knock my socks off with glee by doing so... :-)
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
