30 Dec
2011
30 Dec
'11
6:49 p.m.
On 30 December 2011 16:15, Jason McBrien <jbmcb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Gentoo is a great system. I use it on my
"Rosetta" machine - a late model
P4 with nearly every type of port and drive - SCSI DATs, Firewire, external
SATA and IDE, ZIP and Jaz, GPIB, Token Ring and ATM cards - with a custom
kernel compiled to access pretty much anything you can plug into it. The
system has a huge chain of dependencies set as I want to support
everything, and everything compiles and works just fine. I even have a
crazy dual-toolchain setup where some libraries are compiled with the Intel
compiler (for a nice 20-40% speed boost on media transcoding) no problems
there either.
I also use regular Ubuntu to play around with, Mythbuntu on a PVR and
Debian on a small file server. I can't say I have any more problems with
Gentoo than on any of my other systems.
I'm not saying it's a /problem/ as such, but I found it fiddly, a lot
of work and the benefits that I have heard about were
performance-related and nothing I'd want myself. My tiny bit of
experience with "emerge" did not impress or appeal to me, and I found
"use" flags a poorly-documented mess of no perceptible benefit.
I can see from comments here that there are non-performance-related
benefits for some people, though.
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