[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Nils Olofsson wrote:

>> See, the kind of people who use gentoo are, at a guess, the same kind
>> of people who do silly things like 'rpm -i --force --nodeps XYZ.rpm'.

> Thats Bullshit, plain and simple.

Well, doing the above is reason #1 for people concluding rpm is crap.

(Personally, I think rpm should make it difficult to do the above).

> I've never complained that RPM is crap..so your proved wrong, And 
> Gentoo is more than Compiler flags/packages.

Well, I went to gentoo.org, clicked on 'About Gentoo' and got:

 	http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml

"He discovered lots of up-to-date packages that could be auto-built 
using the optimization settings and build-time functionality that 
*he* wanted, rather than what some distro creator thought would be 
best for him".

So I guess you should take it up with the Gentoo people.. cause 
that's certainly a major aspect of how Gentoo is advertised.

As for vast numbers of packages, Debian has that already anyway (and 
Fedora isn't too bad once you add Dag/RF/NewRPMs/bravegnuworld to 
your sources).

BTW: Couple of my machines are quite slow (pentium or P-II class 
machines), I guess Gentoo's super-optimised custom software approach 
is exactly what I need to speed them up, right? How long will it take 
to install Gentoo on a Pentium 233MMX would you know (and time each 
week to keep it up to date). Or would there be any way to compile 
binary packages on a fast machine, for installing on the slow ones?

FC4 installed in about an hour on that machine btw.

regards,
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