I use gentoo, because.
1. I like the package management system, it contains almost as many packages as debian.
2. the forum and support channels on irc are excellent.
3. my fixes to things are included quickly.
4. I run 3 different architectures and downloading binaries for them all is expensive and a pain. luckily for me the source for gentoo is available from my isp for free (and my processing power far exceeds my download speed).
5. when i am writing code the slots system lets me have various versions of dependancies installed at the same time and its simple. Its also trivial to update packages for software that i am using to the latest version before they are officially released by gentoo.
I have thought long and hard about switching to debian but there were 2 things that have stopped me.
The release cycle is so slow, ubuantu looks like a good step in the direction of fixing it. But is it debian or not? why cant the two have been one? The politics that exists in debian seeps out and makes me feel icky.
The rabidness that many (not all) debian users profess that there way is the one true way. And no one else can do any thing any where near as useful.
Thats why I use gentoo.
(nothing to do with speed at all)
On 06/11/2004, at 2:33 AM, TongMaster wrote:
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:15 +1100, Ben de Luca wrote:Choose gentoo, because it makes the debian people freak !
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Broom! Broom! Brooooooooooooooooooooom!
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