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Testing Gentoo
Today I'll try out Gentoo Linux. Until now I used Debian on all of my machines. Of course, Debian stable (no more Woody, but now Sarge) is always for me the best choice for servers, but maybe Debian unstable is not the best solution for desktops and notebooks. I usually installed Knoppix on those kinds of machines, to get a preconfigured X and hardware recognition. Of course the initial installation works fine, but all further upgrades seem to break the system more and more, I think because of the customizations Knoppix has in respect to pure Debian.
So, for now, I'll try to install Gentoo and look what it's like. Of course installing Gentoo can last pretty long, because of the compilation processes, so it maybe that I'm offline until Monday or something like that...
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Jacques Marneweck
Have you taken a look at [http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD] for your servers? I'm running FreeBSD on all the servers that I admin. ;)
Link to commentToby
Hmmm... always wanted to try out FreeBSD. The problem is, that I'm now used to Debian and know pretty much how things are done... Of course, my Debian Server runs stable now for over 2 years, so the chances are not good, that I switch that soon... Of course, I will try FreeBSD on my dev server, when I set it up again next time! :)
Link to commentThanks for the reminder!
Gaud
I am using Linux since almost 8 years now and I had the occasion to try a lot of distributions and see them evoluate. I am now using Ubuntu Linux. It's based on debian but it's aimed at the desktop/workstation use. It has great hardware support. I use it on my laptop and home machine. I got software hibernation right out of the box..
Link to commentI also tried Gentoo for almost a year, It's a really great distribution that you can customize to your need. The problem with it, is that you have to own a monster machine that can handle hours and hours of compilation, this is not always perfect for a workstation.
For Gentoo, if you don't already knows about distcc, I strongly suggest that you take a look.
to conclude, take a look at Ubuntu..
Daniel Gauthier
Andreas
If you don't want to wait, use precompiled GRP-packages (Gentoo Reference Plattform) and use Stage 3:
Link to commenthttp://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=1#doc_chap2
Gaud
I see that GRP doesn't always provides the latest version. Is using GRP give you the ability to customize your system (example: -kde +gnome) ?
Link to commentAndreas
You get new Version 2-3 times a year with every new gentoo release. The next release (2005.1) is planned for august:
Link to commenthttp://www.beejaysworld.de/archives/34-Preparing-Gentoo-2005.1.html
You con find the following packages on the package-cd:
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2005.0/packagecd/CONTENTS
And it's right, you cannot customize your system as good as compiling everything yourself. So what you can do is installing really large packages (X, KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox...) from GRP-CD, and install smaller packages (with special USE-Flags) from source.
If you want full control you have to install everything from source - the choice is up to you ;-)