My Gentoo odyssey (Linux.com)

My Gentoo odyssey (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 20, 2006 8:49 UTC (Wed) by edomaur (subscriber, #14520)
Parent article: My Gentoo odyssey (Linux.com)

I started with Gentoo in 2001 or 2002. It was the only distro I could find that was not a complete pain to run on the then "flambant neuf" computer (a brand new Shuttle box).

Except for one time I accidentally destroyed the Portage mechanism, I have never regretted the time past onto it.

Now, I can make the install config in less than 15 minutes, and then let the system emerge applications during the night : when the next day come, I have a server running exactly what I want it to run, and probably more up to date on the drivers side (had the case 3 or 4 times when nothing except Gentoo recognize the hardware...)

For me, Gentoo is ok. It has some faults if I need to do a complete binary install for an Oracle or something box, but on the long way, I've only good thing to say about the stability of the system.

And ther is the learning aspect of the distro : before Gentoo, I barelly understand how to compile my own kernel, and how a Linux (or unix) system was put on a disk. After a year using it, I was able to teach LPI classes, only had to learn the quirks of Debian and RH based distros :-)

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