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 1E4On9-0004bl-HN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:09:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7EK7x97014768; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:08:00 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7EK4Q9I017106 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:04:27 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so712777nzc for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:04:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fyXov7ayzt5Obhvyb1LBf16mgdBvm1Y08MbYfKpVES0m7J1lbw+hpIkvSRTZe8tbxT4KY8zW7NkA9cBpSDZIzKq9XGDFATg2YTpo6hJR5HlPVcMfq/lMNm4B5y0CSUqgssUDevojr3Fi1TrmCEndC900QlBfZds1jUVVyZrrk6M= Received: by 10.36.2.12 with SMTP id 12mr3802282nzb; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.104? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 36sm444622nzk.2005.08.14.13.04.47; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42FFA5AF.3070904@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050804) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? References: <1123371608.32004.3.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f4396b44-4d05-4973-94f5-7467bbe0b6bc X-Archives-Hash: 8df1c3de324180f82207a254755be910 Paul Hoy wrote: > Hi all, > > 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? > > Thanks all, > Paul Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)? Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list