[PLUG] Gentoo users in the PDX area?

[max.reid at saikonetworks.com]

You can count me in! I have four gentoo systems and I use them for everything
around the house (NFS, web tiki, mail, etc.)

On a personal note, Is it just me or does anyone else find gentoo at least
slightly addictive when you use distccd and run multipile systems and building
binary packages?  I feel that once you have a such a system in place it makes
the distinctions between binary / source distro a little more blurry.  

Regards,
Max



Quoting "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb at cesmail.net>:

> plug_0 at robinson-west.com wrote:
> 
> >I've tried gentoo, but I admittedly haven't been very impressed
> >with it thus far.
> >
> >I'd say it's for experts because you can't willy nilly
> >set the use flags.  I imagine there are some secrets
> >to getting everything working.  Then again, I installed
> >on a Dell laptop where laptops notorious for being
> >slightly incompatible with Linux.
> >  
> >
> The secret to USE flags is to stick with the defaults at first, then 
> modify them and re-emerge as features are needed. Actually, Portage has 
> a recent addition, "emerge --newuse world", which rebuilds anything that 
> needs rebuilding because a USE flag changed.
> 
> >In theory being forced to compile everything is an interesting 
> >idea, but from a practical standpoint I'd have to say that
> >gentoo has quite a way to go before binary based Linux
> >distributions will be a thing of the past.
> >  
> >
> I would agree if the binary distros would standardize (for x86) on i686 
> compilation. I have three machines -- a P3, an Athlon XP and an Athlon 
> Tbird, and I find i686 compilation acceptable except for 
> numeric-intensive code like R. That way I can have a common package 
> repository and not have to recompile as often.
> 
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