From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8683 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Apr 2003 16:53:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26890 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 16:53:15 -0000 From: Noah Justin Norris To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:54:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> <20030410062826.GA2310@mars.leahcim.invalid> In-Reply-To: <20030410062826.GA2310@mars.leahcim.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304101054.32978.gentoo@mchsi.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 871ad1d2-b075-4ba7-9762-d3f2d4546906 X-Archives-Hash: 4466e1be94259103f64a15e68908718a Have you ran debian lately, can you even say its a current binary distro (current as of redhat 6) and why do people not like using mandrake and redhat after they start using linux one they are a company and not a community and two RPM's based distro break Is there a way to make like a i586 or i686 based distro but optimize it for all the above faster processors ( i know there a reason for -mcpu= ) i really dont think i386 and i486 binary's are needed (debian works great for these cause the systems are just about as old as debian current) I didnt want to cause a flame war over this, this is the type of response i get from debian user's i dont want gentoo becoming like debian in this sence. Another issue is portablity how hard is it to release source based cd's (containing all the gentoo source which possible could be updated weekly or monthly) this would target mostly dialup linux users or users with restricted net access. this was worked on then kinda disapeared . ? On Thursday 10 April 2003 06:28 am, 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 -- life is linux linux is life -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list