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Subject: Re: Choosing a Linux distribution (OT)

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:53:13 03/06/05

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On March 05, 2005 at 22:56:58, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>How well up to date is Gentoo?

You can't get any more bleeding edge than with Gentoo...

>What about the software supplied with gentoo?

There are ports of basically everything.

>I am going to install a new version of Fc3 soon, but I'm interested in knowing
>what is the strong point of Gentoo vs others. Maybe I'll switch to gentoo
>instead :)

I am (very) happy with it. I don't care for the 'optimization by recompiling'
but the entire system seems well-designed and always supports all the newest
stuff.

The only downside is that sometimes an update breaks the system. (But that is
generally fixed quickly, at which point something else breaks, etc)

--
GCP



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