[CLUE-Tech] distro question

[Matthew Porter]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:44:00PM -0600, Dale K. Hawkins wrote:
> OK.  I have played with many different distros over the years and have
> recently been contemplating giving gentoo a whirl.  I am not an idiot
> and I do so love to tinker.  It seems there is some experience on the
> list with gentoo.  So, I just wanted to ask people's opinions about
> gentoo.
> 
> I have been using debian quite happily for several years now.

I'm in a similar boat, so I too would be interested in hearing about
anyone's pro & con experiences with Gentoo, especially for a family
desktop.

My son and I are about to start building a new PC for our family room.
I was all set to put Debian on it, since we use that now -- until I
heard Collins talk about Gentoo this week.  I've gotten surprising
performance from my old Pentium 150 through some custom compiling, so
the bit-tweaker in me is mighty attracted to building everything in
the box from source.

 -- Matt.

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Matthew F. Porter
Littleton, Colorado

mfporter at c-creature.com