Talking Gentoo?

[Jayson Smith]

Which distribution of Linux do you use yourself?  From what you've heard,
what's Gentoo's stability like?

----- Original Message -----
From: <dking at pimpsoft.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: Talking Gentoo?


> I have friends who swear by Gentoo, but I have yet to find a speakup
> enabled version of its install; From what I understand the initial
> install of a gentoo system is even more straining then a debian
> install, but just as with debian makes up with it when maintaining
> it.
>
> Gentoo is in fact much more bleeding edge then debian ever will be,
> from what I understand they often use direct cvs code in there
> builds.
>
>  - D
> On 17 May 2004 at 0:25, Jayson Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Thanks to everybody who got me going with a Speakup-enabled 2.6.6
kernel.
> > And now, for another question.  Currently I'm using Debian 3.  However,
I've
> > always been a bit fascinated with Gentoo's Portage system, which
downloads
> > packages as source then compiles them right on the spot.  I probably
won't
> > switch actually, but has anybody managed to get a talking Gentoo install
> > using Speakup, and if so, how?
> > As for stability, etc. is Gentoo pretty stable?  I'm using Debian 3
stable
> > which, as many of you probably know, is quite a bit out of date.  I
would
> > assume Gentoo would be more current.
> > Thanks for any advice and thoughts.
> > Jayson.
> >
> >
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