RE: Debian <---> Gentoo
I've tried to use Gentoo a couple of times. I run Linux on older
"reject" computer equipment so it was tempting to have a distro that
compiled the apps with the optimizations I wanted (instead of assuming I
was running on in i686).
I have been unable to get it to install through the proxy server we use
at my employer. It requires a user name and password.
I've read through all the Gentoo doc's and followed all the directions
that are supposed to work.
Why bother? Debian works through our proxy server with absolutely no
problems. I just enter the information during the install and it sticks
the entry into the apt.conf file.
-Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Arnesen [mailto:harald@skogtun.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 5:40 AM
> To: Johannes Graumann
> Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian <---> Gentoo
>
>
> Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann@web.de> writes:
>
> > This might be a provoking question but I was wondering
> whether anybody
> > on the list had tried Gentoo Linux ... I get the impression that the
> > custom compiling done through this distribution might be the right
> > thing for the limited resources of a laptop?
> >
> > Please let me hear your opinion!
>
> I have used Debian for the last 3-4 years (since I got fed up
> by Redhats
> "missing dependencies"), and it's still on my main machine.
>
> However, my (two) new machines, one of which is a laptop, runs Gentoo.
> The speed difference isn't that great, compiling everything
> takes a long
> time, but for some reason I feel more at home with Gentoo.
>
> They are the only Linux distros for me - Gentoo on a fast machine with
> lots of ram, Debian on anyting smaller.
> --
> Hilsen Harald.
>
>
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