Gentoo flag waving ...

[Chong Yu Meng]

Wow ! That's amazing. I "upgraded" to Red Hat 8.0 finally, after trying 
to put it off as long as I could. Didn't have a choice because 
SpectraLinux seems to have disappeared.

I remember now why I hated Red Hat so much. The installer dumps a *LOT* 
of crap into your hard disk. I didn't think there was so much crap out 
there! I spent an entire day pruning the system, getting libraries and 
applications that I needed just to get Apache 2 and Java working 
properly. With SpectraLinux, my whole setup worked, right out of the 
box. I suppose the (only) good thing about RH is that the fonts look 
better than when I tried tuning them manually on TurboLinux, and the 
icons and interface are quite pretty. I guess, like women, the pretty 
ones require higher maintenance and work worse (sigh!). And the strange 
widgets and applets they created make it very hard to see the wood for 
the trees. I noticed that they now have a "Services" applet -- the 
terminology irks me no end, because it seems like they're trying to make 
it like NT, a bad model to begin with. Why can't everyone learn how to 
start "services" from the command line ?

I used to be able to run a relatively small 400MB Linux server on 
TurboLinux, and I wish I could go back to something like that. How big 
is Gentoo anyway ?

Regards,
pascal chong



Jerry McBride wrote:

>I've been very busy of late and haven't been inputting to this list...
>
>However I'm still around, working with Gentoo. I can't help but advocate using
>this linux distribution. Each and every turn that I encounter ends up smelling
>like roses. The latest twist is my installing (emerge-ing) KDE 3.1.1...
>
>Wow is this thing fast! I'm looking forward to some free time so I can look over
>their compile scripts as the gentoo way of compiling the kde source has resulted
>in executables that run faster than the ones I did by hand... Totally awesome.
>
>I've got a meeting coming up next week, kinda of an old "farts get together", I
>just hope my Gentoo t-shirt arrives in the mail before hand.
>
>Cheers all.
>
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