On Saturday 17 September 2005 09:54 am, Tyler Strickland wrote: > Admittedly, Gentoo has intrigued me over the years, but the thought of > the time involved with compiling everything from source has thus far > deterred me.
I've found this to be less and less of an issue for me. Sure, I have to wait a day to do an update to kde, but that's only what, every 6 months? I installed gentoo on a new firewall (an old P2 350 w/192MB) in less than a day. It only took about 30min of my actual time, then just let it run--about the same as a binary distro that makes you wait while it unpacks a gig of packages--except I can work on the final setup while it's compiling things. One thing that I've found very useful, is that the install can be done on a working, production system, remotely, w/o interfering with it--since it's all done in a chroot environment. Granted, a full desktop environment with X and a heavy-weight desktop will cost more time to initially install. But, upgrades are as simple as 'emerge --update world' and letting it run overnight or in the background. I've found that for me, a little longer wait is a far better experience than getting it 'right now', especially when 'right now' involves *me* having to resolve dependency issues manually. -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
