Re: Debian vs Gentoo

[Corrin Lakeland <lakeland@cs.otago.ac.nz>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:58, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Any info / comparisons available?  This is not flame firewood.  It is
> intellectual curiosity.

We've got someone here trying out gentoo to see how he finds it and reporting 
back, but no real conclusions to date.

Roughly, gentoo is more CPU and bandwidth hungry than debian since each 
package requires compiling.  You still need more compertance to manage gentoo 
than debian. Gentoo avoids debian's problem of having the maintainer make 
arbitary decisions that half the users will disagree with (like should gnubg 
be compiled with gnome support -- looks nicer, but prevents use by people 
without gnome).

Since the packages are less of a moving target, you'll get a more stable 
machine with debian.  I can't see gentoo doing a good job of Debian's 
equivilant of 'stable', but then most desktop users don't run stable :-)

All very much IMHO.

Corrin