On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:37 PM, C S Shyam Sundar <[email protected]> wrote: >> Gentoo is a pain to maintain, and I would recommend it only if you >> have a use case that justifies it. I was an avid Gentoo user in >> college for three years, where I had the time to recompile the kernel >> and other packages to enable/disable features. This is of course >> solved if you use the genkernel script to generate the kernel in >> gentoo, but that for me that would defeat the purpose of using of a >> source only distro which allows customization and tweaks. >> > > Not entirely true. I work for a company where we have production servers > running on Gentoo. Note that we have to maintain our own binary repo. But > the performance is phenomenal.
That is exactly what I'm talking about. If your use case needs that extra performance it is the way to go. Not entirely useful for a desktop system where updating updating KDE will cost you a day in compile time (building from source of course, not a binary package). > >> >> As far as support goes, the gentoo wiki used to be quite well >> maintained. Not sure if that's the case these days. > > Gentoo Wiki is maintained. > IRC is friendly for support. > >> Again, don't bother with Gentoo if you don't have time to invest. Not >> saying it's a bad distro, in fact it is quite the opposite if you have >> the time and energy to set it up to your liking. > > > True. > > -- Shyam > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Sent using the magic of the interwebs. http://ritesh.posterous.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
