Well, I can understand that. I would hate to compile everything from scratch under that environment and if that were my only experience I could understand how that would make you sour to Gentoo. I would recommend using the x86 GRP packages on older hardware. However, on today's newer systems compile time is greatly reduced and you know your utilizing the full potential of your system whenever you ebuild. Besides, once you get your system setup with X, you can have your ebuild run in the background in a terminal window while you go about your business. Large ebuilds can be done at night while your sleeping.
Reading and tweaking? Custom Command lines? What Linux OS doesn't require any of those?
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Kelsay Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Preferred Linux Flavor for Web Server?
"less than ideal" is an understatement. I tried to install Gentoo on a PIII-500 and it took a week of evenings to keep checing on it and approving different items and setting USE flags, etc. I wanted to say I'd done it, so I did and I hated it. I have no fond memories of looking back on it or anything other than it was a complete waste of time and electricity.
Tons of reading, tons of little tweaker custom command lines to get things to work. In the end, no faster or no more useable than a Debian server install or any other distro that took only one evening.