[ltp] Gentoo

[Dan Borello]

I have used Mandrake, Red Hat, Gentoo and Debian for a long period of time each.

If package managment is your goal, Gentoo and Debian are the best.  apt and portage are both wonderful.  

Urpmi is not all it is made out to be.  It is not NEARLY as good as apt.  

Gentoo's optimisations are very small.  There are a few tests that show little or no gain over debian.  

I recommend you give debian a shot.  Once setup correctly (part of the fun) it is very easy to maintain and give you instant gratification when installing something.

dan


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>Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 19:23:21 +0200
>From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne@cae.co.za>  
>Subject: Re: [ltp] Gentoo  
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
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>dan babb wrote:
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>> Has anyone successfully installed gentoo on a T-20 and if so what did
>> you do to make it work properly? I'm not all that linux savvy, and I
>> like some of the features that Gentoo has to offer (i.e. Emerge). I have
>> 2 options here. I can continue into week 3 of fighting with Gentoo or
>> alternatively does anyone have an idea of some sort of software I could
>> use with Redhat that could do something similar to emerge like go out to
>> mirrors I define and grab dependancies for packages and tarballs that I
>> download and start compiling?
>
>Gentoo has two advantages over Redhat (we're talking defaults):
>
>1)Optimisation
>2)Package management
>
>Mandrake has about the same optimisations that you would be willing to
>use on a Gentoo box (the rest make very little difference), and has
>urpmi for managing packages (no reason to compile dependencies when
>urpmi will just install them for you instead ...).
>
>Of course, there is also Debian, and a few other distros that have sane
>package management.
>
>I would suggest you try Mandrake 9.2RC2 (and update to cooker for now),
>or wait about a week or two for 9.2 final. 9.2 has most of the
>Thinkpad-related stuff packaged anyway, and some Thinkpad users have had
>good success with the ACPI in 2.4.22-10mdk (my 600X doesn't like acpi ...).
>
>Of course, if you just want to be l337, and be happy that you *must* be
>more efficient since you spent a solid week compiling packages, then
>there is no choice, you have to run a source-based distro. My machine
>spends enough time compiling as it is to not want to give it more load
> ... I want to use it myself!
>
>Regards,
>Buchan
>
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