[ILUG] What the difference...

[Conor Wynne]

On 9 Feb 2006, at 23:56, James McCarthy wrote:

> Whats the difference between Gentoo & any non source based distro (not
> including slackware)?

Gentoo is for hippies, or for people who like to waste cpu cycles.
It can be good for certain situations, like build optimised once,  
never patch again - coz
this will waste cpu cycles....

> Productivity.
> I'm after spending the last 5 hours trying to get it installed & I
> give up, I'll just use Ubuntu.

Good choice, you will not notice any difference in speed between the  
two to be honest.

Regards
Conor.