Gentoo - so cool that versions don't matter!

Gentoo - so cool that versions don't matter!

Posted Aug 16, 2003 9:05 UTC (Sat) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563)
In reply to: Gentoo - so cool that versions don't matter! by vinci
Parent article: Gentoo Linux 1.4 released

Agreed - you have to compile the package, before you can test it out. But everybody who knows what they are doing on Gentoo, has their own package-directory, so once the package is compiled and installed (only takes a short time - unless for a few big packages, like X, KDE etc :) it has the old one saved, to install in seconds - so you can easily roll back if it goes sour - saved me many a times :)

Also, there's a thread in the forums.gentoo.org (see link in http://vsen.dk gentoo presentation), where many (especially Debian) people state why they have switched to Gentoo. So that would seem to imply that for many people incl. Debian users, Gentoo has something to offer that Debian doesn't.

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