> Gentoo gives much more control as to what is actually on, and running > on, the box, and some of our configurations are fairly custom, and it > fits well with that.
No flames, please. Honest questions follow. Having never worked with gentoo, I don't understand where this extra control comes from. As a debian and ubuntu user, I know that I can download the source and compile something myself if I like. I found http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml to be lacking, as I could see easy apt-get parallels for each of the "one command" actions listed. I know that there are people on the list who are actively using gentoo in production environments, so can one of you give a more complete argument for why the customization is easier? Does a gentoo install start out significantly smaller? Do those of you who use it know that you would be compiling just about everything to begin with? Give me some arguments that'll inspire me to give gentoo a shot on _my_ old clunker laptop. -CMP PS. Nobody is using slackware in production? Yellow Dog? DSL? rpath? Something I haven't heard of? -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
