| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
A quick look at Gentoo LinuxA quick look at Gentoo LinuxPosted Mar 20, 2003 7:43 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814)In reply to: A quick look at Gentoo Linux by yem Parent article: A quick look at Gentoo Linux "I wouldn't recommend it for newbies or critical server use though." Depends ;) I consider myself as a Linux newbie and I have successfully installed Gentoo Linux (and hosed it too :D ). I got help of course - that's what irc is for :) I want to learn Linux and I think Gentoo is a good way to do that. I don't think you really learn that much about Linux by installing the latest Red Hat distro. I had never compiled a kernel before and I don't think I would have tried it if it wasn't because Gentoo forced me to do it. If you have a fast machine, the compilation time is not that bad IMHO and you only have to install it once. From what I know, you should compare Gentoo with FreeBSD - it works in much the same way. I like the fact that I always got the latest release - "upgrading" is easy.
(Log in to post comments)
A quick look at Gentoo Linux Posted Mar 20, 2003 13:43 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] >From what I know, you should compare Gentoo with FreeBSD - it works in much the same way.Not unless you are talking about keeping up with FreeBSD-CURRENT. Installing
A quick look at Gentoo Linux Posted Mar 20, 2003 18:19 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] Okay, I didn't know that, but I wasn't specifically talking about the installation, I was more thinking about portage.
|
|
||||||||||||