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[Michael Hipp]

Collins Richey wrote:

> Nice article at the following url as noted on linuxtoday: 
> 
> http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/04/09/23/1944240.shtml?tid=127&tid=108
> 
> I guess you might say gento is finally coming "into the closet."

Good article Collins, thanks.

Was a bit surprised by this:
"meaning GCC, GlibC, and other necessary programs for bootstrapping are 
precompiled"

I was taught that one thing you never do is allow s/w dev tools on a 
production machine, especially one that is accessible by far-flung 
customers and even possibly with shell accounts.

It could be argued they're compromising security for Gentoo's sake.

But a good article and IMHO good news that Gentoo is becoming a viable 
alternative to the commercial distros.

Michael