Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo

[Robert Cole <robert.cole@support4linux.com>]

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:28 pm, leahcim@ntlworld.com wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:13:30AM +0000, Noah Justin Norris wrote:
> > 	Is there any interest to start a binary release of gentoo with
> > precompiled binaries. Im talking the entire source tree i know many
> > people that would switch to gentoo if they would not have to compile
> > every thing from source . not everyone has the fastest computer out
> > there.
>
> I thought it was called Debian? ;o)
>
> Or perhaps, "I'd eat meat, if only it were vegetarian"
>
> Seriously though, I don't see the point, unless you want to sell more
> T-Shirts, there are a plethora of good binary distributions of linux out
> there already and all the downsides you list are what, imo, define Gentoo.
>
> I'd prefer to see gentoo improved as a source-based distribution

Ditto. There is no point to a binary version of Gentoo. If you want that then 
as Michael said just use Debian.

Robert

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