Hadron wrote:
> ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:29:20 +0200, Hadron wrote:
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>>> Jerry McBride <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>> Why I Use Gentoo?
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>>>>> | So, I have been asked this question many times. And of course the |
>>>>> assumption is that I am some sort of a masochist who enjoys wasting
>>>>> time | on compiling packages. However, that is not entirely true.
>>>>> There are | some other reasons why, after trying Ubuntu (started linux
>>>>> with it), | Gentoo and then Arch I settled on Gentoo. `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://rahulthewall.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/why-i-use-gentoo/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I try to get Gentoo on everything I touch or otherwise influence. It's
>>>> the absolute best Linux distribution for those that know what they want
>>>> and what they need. Gentoo... You need a full blown desktop with
>>>> compiz-fusion or a specific purpose server... it's your call. You build
>>>> exactly what you need... no extra fluff... It's kinda' like a perfect
>>>> choice... Something no one ever had with proprietary OS's of any ilk.
>>>
>>> Please outline what you can do with Gentoo that you can not do with
>>> Debian.
>>
>> Optimize the entire damned distro to run on my 1ghz mini-itx.
>
> Please define "optimize" here. And dont tell me "compile it all". Thats
> an old fairy tale in most cases.
>
If you say so, but it's something microsoft does not do...
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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)
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