[Tfug] Gentoo Linux?

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On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Keith J Davey wrote:

> Good Day all,
>
> I was just reading up on Gentoo Linux at there homepage.  From the read I am quite interested in this upstart
> distro.  It seems to me that it may have all the servicablility of Debian with non of the "attitude".  I come from a
> strong BSD background and this new distro may be just what I am looking for.   I was just wondering if anyone
> has played with this distro yet, and what your expereances and opinions are.
>
> Thanks

I have it installed, and its pretty dang cool. The package manager is
pretty good, and the system remains relatively free of unnecessary
dependencies. When I installed it (at 1.1a), the install system went kinda
weird on me and didn't install mount (and a bunch of other things), but I
think they fixed it at 1.2. It has alot of useful tools for doing a lot of
the messy config stuff (ie, the rc.* dirs, and swapping nvidia's opengl
libs for whatever is there), and leaves the rest of the configuration
for you, but provides reasonable defaults (like most other distros).

The only gripe I have is that its not FHS compliant. I can't get used to
/usr/qt and /usr/wine, but other than that, its a great distro. Be sure
you have bandwith, CPU, and RAM for the install, cause it downloads alot
and compiles even more.

- Yan