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 1RWghx-0004RH-C4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:56:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4777521C054; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 03:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ADC021C030 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 03:54:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWggI-000BIW-Un for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:54:31 +0700 Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so2414643wgb.10 for ; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:54:27 -0800 (PST) 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 10.180.95.170 with SMTP id dl10mr1479385wib.31.1322884467134; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.87.71 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.87.71 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:54:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4ED92EF3.8050508@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 10:54:27 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d044287fcbe0f2504b3280a5a X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: 8288258b-3a40-4955-af60-77ada26cb496 X-Archives-Hash: 7b3b8e86d5328248abb8396bc3cd93af --f46d044287fcbe0f2504b3280a5a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Dec 3, 2011 9:14 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > 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. > Ha, same with me :-) But in my case, it's esoteric stuffs like: latest iptables, xtables-addons (and its ipset modules), fetchmail, postgreSQL, ... and an initramfs-less system :-) Rgds, --f46d044287fcbe0f2504b3280a5a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8


On Dec 3, 2011 9:14 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> 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.
>

Ha, same with me :-)

But in my case, it's esoteric stuffs like: latest iptables, xtables-addons (and its ipset modules), fetchmail, postgreSQL, ... and an initramfs-less system :-)

Rgds,

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