From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RWf4m-0005fI-Vp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:11:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FCD521C0FA; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 02:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262B821C036 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 02:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bw0-f53.google.com with SMTP id zu5so3434300bkb.40 for ; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:09:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=DX8c+XRGgzG6I0lVkODusnDMBM2sVup2OYw/9HDcXOs=; b=ivWxkymsLMtLLng82IxRwzQeVY6Lth/htJvqk9gACxxIfO1l5qmHbdVXcEsEdJSU6M 4jLzVjtMwE7zn3oz0lVjm/Dmo/59ouPWGiLIKOpdFgtBZbdYM7Fnkp2BQpD2rebKgjg1 R3Nw/LERnEplHPNyqUo9j9lnNbGbrqHebBpxU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.153.216 with SMTP id l24mr342866bkw.64.1322878178631; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:09:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.54.65 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:09:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4ED92EF3.8050508@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 21:09:38 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 844dd2b5-51a2-4416-b8d4-67c323897ac1 X-Archives-Hash: 5aa57b187e011b250b2856812be20e61 On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Another plus point is the almost complete devel tools provided out of the > box: the gcc suite. Now if I happen across an open source project that > hasn't made it yet to the portage tree, I can just download and compile it > myself. This. Very much this. My dive into Gentoo came as I was fed up with Debian and Ubuntu having buggy and/or outdated versions of multimedia encoding packages while trying to configure a box specced for live transcoding of h.264 to something my PS3 would like. -- :wq