Gentoo anyone?

[Simon Fowler]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:18:35AM +1100, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> Has anyone on the list used Gentoo?
> 
> It looks interesting, but based on the reviews I've read the install is 
> non-trivial and takes some time, and I wondering if anyone is able to provide 
> feedback on whether it is worth the time and effort to install?
> 
> (I had a quick look at the sorcerer, lunar-linux and source-mage webpages, but 
> they all look less mature than Gentoo.)
> 
I have a friend who tried out Gentoo, and went away extremely
unimpressed . . . I asked him for a bit of a rant to post here, and
he came up with this: http://gophernet.org/gentoo.html

Pleasepleaseplease don't let this get onto slashdot . . . .

> Otherwise, I'll go for Debian next I think.
> 
Go for Debian now. It's not perfect, but it's /good/.

Simon

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