You could think of Gentoo as a sort of breed of *BSD and linux. It _IS_ a linux distribution, but it uses a ports-like system. Everything (if you so choose so) is compiled from source. Which means you can have binaries specifically for your processor, you can set it to always compile with -O3. In theory you get a faster running distro, but installing applications takes quite a while. Compiling apps + all their dependencies is not a short process. Compiling XMMS and all of its dependencies took about 6hours if i remember correctly. But in all fairness, it did have to compile a lot of gtk libraries and whatnot. They also have "bleeding edge" software such as KDE3 and GNOME3, but im sure you can get debs for your system for taht if you really wanted them. I have yet to see someone call Gentoo a very stable system, i wanted to check that out for myself, but until they can get Mozilla building on alpha, im staying away from it. I hope i explained it properly. Richard Fillion rick@rhix.ods.org On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:11, Peter Watkinson wrote: > Hi, > > What's the difference with Gentoo? > > cheers, > > Peter Watkinson > peter.watkinson1@ntlworld.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Byrnes" <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> > To: <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org> > Cc: <axp-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:38 AM > Subject: Gentoo Linux realeased on Alpha > > > > Apologies for the cosspost, but it's nice to see Gentoo have a port of > > their distro on the Alpha processor. > > > > More info at http://www.gentoo.org > > > > cheers, > > rob > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-request@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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