On 5/4/2005 6:38 PM David Brieck Jr. wrote:
On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Well as they say, "the third time is the charm!". I went to the gentoo.org web site and like what I see. I have been completely frustrated with Fedora and the packages "getting in my way". I've missed the simple 'portinstall <port>' and have the system build from source, optimized for my processor and environment. Gentoo seems to have this with 'emerge' and may provide a "best of both worlds" solutions for me. I'll learn how Linux works and be able to find my way around a RedHat system without too much trouble. I'll learn to deal with rpm issues at work but my home system will be mine to do with as I wish.
Thanks for the tip! Your the second that has recommended Gentoo. I may
go that route as it sounds more like the FreeBSD that I am used to. I
just tried Fedora because it's very similar to RedHat and RedHat is the
only "allowed" distro (because of support contracts) at my place of
employment. Thus I'd be "killing two birds with one stone", so to speak.
Well, then let me be the 3rd to recomend gentoo. The servers I admin
at work are RedHat so I get plenty of RPM hell there. It's nice to
come home and sit in front of my Myth setup and just relax. Another
nice thing for me is that I can upgrade just myth and it's
dependancies and not worry about upgrading to the last FC version or
whatnot. My Myth box is still running a 2.4 kernel and old stuff all
over the place but I don't have any problems upgrading myth whenever
there is a new version. Some would say Gentoo is not a stable platform
but I say it's as stable as you want it to be.
I'm downloading the universal install CD now. It will take too long for me to try it tonight but hopefully I'll get a chance tomorrow.
Thanks for your suggestions!
Drew
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