From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15864 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Apr 2003 15:15:39 -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 16647 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 15:15:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3E967949.8030208@caddr.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:14:01 -0700 From: Miles Egan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robert.cole@support4linux.com Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> <20030410062826.GA2310@mars.leahcim.invalid> <200304100003.57256.robert.cole@support4linux.com> In-Reply-To: <200304100003.57256.robert.cole@support4linux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: e1b19b68-3fcf-477d-b4d2-464ef8bb7564 X-Archives-Hash: 0874c12822793117f57f86b670e91b7d Robert Cole wrote: > 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. 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list