Comment Re:Gentoo (Score 2, Informative) 497
Gentoo has been great on my home systems... I feel as though I've seen a nice speed difference after installing it... Got the desktop up in a flash... Apache... Postfix... Samba... etc... Run the command, it installs them then tweak the config files... All pretty easy to me... I do agree however that there has been problems with packages being released for installation that have broken things... The libpng issue a few weeks back caused me to have to recompile alot of my packages... But it is all a learning experience... I see Gentoo being one of the big boys for a long time to come...
Points I like about it:
Portage - run a command and it will download, compile, and install the program/updates you specify...
rc Scripts - I was lazy and never did sit down to work out how rc.d / rc.1 / rc.2 / rc.3 / etc worked... With Gentoo you just goto /etc/init.d/ and rc-update add Program/Service default to put it into the startup scripts. Let's me remain ignorant AND lazy, wahoo!
Installation - all command line based you do everything by hand... I like it... The install doc is easy enough to follow... The base iso is 16mb after that you can sit and see what packages are being installed, you don't have a huge bundle or programs you don't need... After installation I can sit and add what I want...
WebSite/Docs - I've been back to their website many times looking at their docs for how to get things up and going... Really not bad at all... Got my desktop system up and going no problem. It is great to finally have the NVidia drivers installed and working proper (Tux Racer wahoo)... Plus configuring Postfix, Apache, Webmail, Security, etc... Nifty stuff... I'm sure the info will grow as things move along...
That's about all I can think of for now... I have three of my boxes converted already, gonna keep rolling with it...
Woody2143
(website is down to due horrible lack of content)
Points I like about it:
Portage - run a command and it will download, compile, and install the program/updates you specify...
rc Scripts - I was lazy and never did sit down to work out how rc.d / rc.1 / rc.2 / rc.3 / etc worked... With Gentoo you just goto
Installation - all command line based you do everything by hand... I like it... The install doc is easy enough to follow... The base iso is 16mb after that you can sit and see what packages are being installed, you don't have a huge bundle or programs you don't need... After installation I can sit and add what I want...
WebSite/Docs - I've been back to their website many times looking at their docs for how to get things up and going... Really not bad at all... Got my desktop system up and going no problem. It is great to finally have the NVidia drivers installed and working proper (Tux Racer wahoo)... Plus configuring Postfix, Apache, Webmail, Security, etc... Nifty stuff... I'm sure the info will grow as things move along...
That's about all I can think of for now... I have three of my boxes converted already, gonna keep rolling with it...
Woody2143
(website is down to due horrible lack of content)
