On 01/09/04 09:31 +0530, quasi wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Nikhil Joshi spake thusly:
Well I use Gentoo and frankly I am not a Guru. Gentoo is IMHO the "best" source-based Linux distribution. It gives you the power of installing either binary packages or source based "portages". The
Debian also has source packages available and can download, compile and configure them like usual. It is difficult to beat the maturity of APT. I havent yet used gentoo, but a couple of gentoo fanatics
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Try it. emerge and the BSD ports systems is far more convinient over apt. Where emerge wins is not in the optimisation, but in the USE flags. That convinience is simply missing with other package managers, unless apt can download a source package compile with my chosen optimisations (and compile time options) and then install it.
converted to debian with a little persuasion and *they* cite some advantages of debian over gentoo and not many vice versa.
Maybe you should try Debian once.
OTOH, for quite a few people, Debian is just too ancient. On a server, Debian is usable, except that the Postfix and PostgreSQL support are lacking. On my workstation, apt would be broken left, right and center.
/me is about to roll over to Pg 8.0 b2 tonight.
Devdas Bhagat