[Tfug] Gentoo Linux?

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Harold G. Stevenson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have XDarwin installed and I like it so far. But I wonder how it
> compares to Gentoo Linux? If anyone has compared them I would like to know
> what you think about the two of them. XDarwin uses the Debian packet
> manager(apt-get & dselect); and it works fine. I'm actually interested in
> how different the packages may be.

I don't know about how the distros compare, but the package managers are a
bit different. apt generally gets and installs binaries, and portage
(Gentoo's package manager) gets source and compiles it for your system
(with optional optimizations), then installs what it compiled. You can
both of them do both, but that's generally how they work.

- Yan