From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4XS3-0006DN-9b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:23:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7F5MeEi019159; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:22:40 GMT Received: from smtp.istop.com (smtp.istop.com [66.11.167.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7F5Iu8P008155 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:18:56 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i216-58-13-128.igs.net [216.58.13.128]) by smtp.istop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B63092B3B6 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:35:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:19:16 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:19:16 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? Message-ID: <20050815051916.GA17591@waltdnes.org> References: <1123371608.32004.3.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 11f3aae4-5bcc-4c76-b1c4-39087ccf78be X-Archives-Hash: 25018b985fccc0998965f02dfde91512 On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Paul Hoy wrote > This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants > that share certain characteristics. > > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good > job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, > such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, etc. > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly > support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any > one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point- > of-view? Does anyone wish to share a comparison of the two? Look at it this way, if you're competent to build Linux-From-Scratch, you should have no problems whatsoever building from tarballs the few packages you can't find in Gentoo, and putting them in /usr/local or /opt. Heck, I was doing the... ./configure --with-various-options && make && make install schtick back in my Redhat days. -- Walter Dnes My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list