From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11256 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Apr 2003 00:56:52 -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 13217 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 00:56:51 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:01:09 -0500 From: DJ Cozatt To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030410210109.16af898e.user99@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <3E967949.8030208@caddr.com> References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> <20030410062826.GA2310@mars.leahcim.invalid> <200304100003.57256.robert.cole@support4linux.com> <3E967949.8030208@caddr.com> Organization: Sometimes X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 42031c13-c4a0-4231-993e-c3c88131b37c X-Archives-Hash: d202c664add75dae2711d8bba4090fc6 -snip- > > > > Ditto. There is no point to a binary version of Gentoo. If you want that then > > as Michael said just use Debian. > > Actually I think a binary version would be pretty cool. I use Gentoo > mainly because it tracks new versions of packages so much better than > debian. In fact, I think I switched from debian out of frustration > waiting for debian to package kde 3.1. Compiling from source is cool > too but it's not what keeps me on Gentoo. > > miles > what about people on dial-up? If they can have a stable binary of X or Gnome/KDE and OpenOffice perhaps.. and still have source based for the underlying stuff? Rather than have to download and compile these huge ones? Or is that where GRP is headed? As long as there really is a performance/stablility/feature advantage for running Gentoo. Of course that means new binaries if there is a security issue. Binary distributions are often accompanied by a nice glossy version of the installation docs and sold at a nice price too. David -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list