x86-64 box

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On June 8, 2005 15:55, Andrew Hammond wrote:
> Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> > Andrew Hammond wrote:
> >>Either way, you're better off ignoring the Gentoo kiddies.
> >
> > care to justify that with something other than prejudice?
>
> - If you want stability, go with RHEL, SuSE or maybe debian stable.
> - If you want performance, go with LFS or Slack and prepare to spend a
> couple of months tuning (assuming you have the necessary skills).
> - If you want a good desktop, fedora and ubuntu seem popular.
> - If you want rice, gentoo all the way. Comes with excellent
> documentation on how to bolt a 3 foot wing on your Dad's old P3.
[snip]

Hi Andrew,

While I agree with your comments about the amount of skill required to 
compiling one's own binaries, I do not see how LFS or Slackware are better 
than Gentoo in this regard. It seems to me that Gentoo is essentially LFS or 
Slackware with decent package management. Perhaps you are referring to the 
culture of the community rather than something inherent to the design of 
Gentoo.

I would also add Mandrake/Mandriva to the group of stable distros. Like most 
distros, it also has stable/testing/unstable branches. I have had any 
problems with stability with the "Official" (stable) releases.
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Clifford Ilkay
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