Gentoo desktop?

[Anthony de Boer]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:53:00AM -0500, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> > Another positive aspect of Gentoo is that it ensures that I get the source
> > to *all* of the software I have installed, so it's easy to go look at
> > later, and I don't have to go searching the Internet for it and wondering
> > if what I found actually builds to the version I have installed.  As a
> > programmer/sysadmin, the "source" part of "open source" is a key thing to
> > me.
> 
> Well running Debian I don't worry about that.  I know the package is
> built from the source with the same version number.

Interestingly enough, one of the mottos in the Gentoo community is "If
You Want Debian, You Know Where To Find It".

I was talking to one of the key Debian people awhile ago, and he said
that the percentage of source downloads relative to binary downloads
on the Debian FTP mirrors is rather small.  People are happy with it,
but they're not looking under the sheets.

And you _can_ find Red Hat source RPMSs (SRPMs) too, if you look hard
enough.

However, I don't _want_ to run a binary distribution like Debian or
Fedora or Microsoft Windows where you get binaries somebody else built.
I want the SOURCE.  Don't get between me and the source code.  I want
to see source, and I want to see it building.  Call me a programmer or
something, but source code is important to me.

-- 
Anthony de Boer
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