I'm a FreeBSD user/sysadmin/tweak-for-fun-guy. I used slackware until recently when I started to use Gentoo as my GNU/Linux system.
Gentoo has a package management system that resembles the BSD ports system. If you take your time reading the Gentoo Handbook, you'll have enough knowledge to make it "less greedy". In fact, there's more of FreeBSD in Gentoo than just that. And no, it *doesn't* take 3 days or so to build the whole system in an average machine if you do it from a universal install CD. You'll copy most of the stuff into your hard disk as opposed to compiling everything from source. For knowledge sake, it's a great tool. If you understand what you're doing when installing Gentoo, you'll go through LFS like a breeze (or vice-versa, which was my case). Then understanding how Ubuntu/Debian/Slackware/whatever works will become a lot easier. On 9/21/05, Gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all Once more. > I have been travelling around Aus for abount 15 Months and am noew settled > down again. Its a BIG country 15 months and we saw only a small part of it. > > Down to business!!! > Do any Sluggers run Gentoo? > Has anyone tried to install the Gentoo live cd? > > How many answers to affirn will i get? > Thanks Gerald > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
