[CLUE-Tech] distro question

[Angelo Bertolli]

> I'm a lazy person. To get what I want in fedora, Red Hat, slackware, 
> debian, I have to go through this huge process at install.  It takes 
> me several hours of annoying tweaking and installing to get those 
> systems running, only to find I forgot some stuff and have to get it.  
> With gentoo, I get things started (I can do it by heart on alpha, 
> sparc, and x86) and I just queue

I think I just had a revelation after you said this.  I think a lot of 
people (due to hardware, the way they think, their needs, etc.) choose 
their favorite distro based on how trouble-free it is for them.  Some 
people are quick at installing Fedora with whatever suits their 
needs--for me it takes about 30 minutes to an hour.  Some people want 
other packages which come readily with Debian, and have the hardware 
(unlike myself) that plays nicely with Debian.  I haven't used gentoo, 
but I have used mandrake, fedora, red hat, slackware, debian, lycoris, 
freebsd, and netbsd... and I think the biggest deciding factor on which 
one I want to use is how easily it is and how much time it takes for me 
to get an "acceptable install" running.

People have mentioned that Gentoo has binary packages... does this still 
require you to queue up a bunch of stuff and have a high speed internet 
connection?

Angelo