Ubuntu CD's for Free

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:

> I have. There is much I like and respect about Gentoo. But until someone cares
> enough about it to give it a real installer I won't be able to consider it for
> any kind of serious work.

Ha - that's funny because I use it for all my servers for "serious" work.

Most people go through eye candy installers in RH/Suse then graduate to
Debian or something similar and then discover Gentoo and realize how
fantastic the package system is compared to the others especially when it
comes to maintenance. RH is a PITA to maintain and now that its no longer
free (yes, Im ignoring Fedora) people are looking elsewhere. My experience
has taught me that most RPM-based package systems are evil. Gentoo OTOH is
very easy to customize and very easy to maintain.

As far as the installation goes, the steps are pretty easy and you do
learn a lot so if anything breaks you don't end up unable to fix it
because you can't run redhat-network-config or some other silly GUI tool
(and I dont want or have GUI tools anywhere near my servers).



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