Gentoo -- help

[Peter King]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:09:45AM -0500, William Park wrote:

> Thanks Walter, but I gave up already.  I thought you start with minimal
> install, and run some command to start compiling process, and just sit
> back and watch.

Gentoo isn't like that -- quite the opposite: it insists on your knowing
a fair amount. At the end of the day you are very knowledgeable. It's not
always easy to get through the day, though. It's not a distro for dabbling.

The brand-new Gentoo LiveDVD was designed to show the sorts of things that
are possible with gentoo. But really they are the sorts of things that are
possible with Linux in more or less any distribution. What gives gentoo the
appeal it has is low-level control over the whole of your system, including
freedom from other people's choices about binaries. I find that I wind up
modifying source code about once every six weeks or so. But I never get
stuck waiting for someone else to update a dependency, or wishing they
wouldn't compile in certain dependencies, the way it happens with other
distributions.

You also get to spend recreational time watching gcc do its magic!

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