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A quick look at Gentoo LinuxA quick look at Gentoo LinuxPosted Mar 20, 2003 15:30 UTC (Thu) by mbcook (subscriber, #5517)Parent article: A quick look at Gentoo Linux Gentoo is what I use on my main Linux box. It's a great distro and I find it to be quite powerful and flexable. That said, when I want to set up a server on a slow box, or want to set up a bunch of computers fast, I use Debain. Gentoo is great, but when it takes my dual 600 hours upon hours to compile X or glibc, you can only imagine the waiting that would occur on a Pentium 200. And while the install is bad at first, the second time and on it's quite easy since you've done it before. It's a niche distro to be sure. As for it taking a long time to build, it shouldn't take to long if you start in stage 3 (which means many things precompiled). But that kind of defeats the purpose of the distro a little.
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