Source Based Distro's.

[mihakriket Steffens]

Thank you all for the input. How does Gentoo compare to Linux From Scratch 
or Sorcerer?

Thank you,
Harry


>From: Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: Source Based Distro's.
>Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
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>--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
>
> > What are some of the issues you face if you don't keep your Gentoo up to
> > date on a monthly basis?
> >
>
>Occasionally the Gentoo team will reorganize packages (i.e. the name of it
>changes) and that can sometimes cause what I'd call and "orphaned" package 
>that
>can be tricky to update/remove.  Usually they set things up so that if you
>update fairly regularly this gets taken care of but if you don't stay up to
>date for three months sometimes you can run into a little snag like this.
>Gentoo provides tools to resolve issues like broken libraries caused by a
>package update (or removal) this tool is called "revdep-rebuild" which
>basically checks all system binaries to make sure that apps haven't been 
>broken
>due to a library update.   The gentoo forums have been excellent at helping 
>me
>find issues to any problems I've had..
>
>
>
> > Dave Andruczyk wrote:
> >
> > >--- mihakriket Steffens <mihakriket at msn.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hi All. I have tried many disto's and I keeping hearing alot about the
> > >>source based distro's. As far as getting better performance or 
>installing
> > >>only what you want. I have never tried but have seen articles on these
> > >>distro's. I was wondering if anybody can recommend a souce based 
>distro?
> > >>
> > >>Thank you,
> > >>Harry
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Gentoo has worked very well for me.  Been using it for close to 3 years
> > now..
> > >(The longest I've run ANY one linux distro before I got fed up with it 
>and
> > >switched).  My primary machine (down cause it's still in boxes) has 
>never
> > been
> > >reinstalled,  just kept up to date (weekly or so).
> > >
> > >The initial installation took the longest of any distro, but I wouldn't
> > label
> > >it as difficult. Just read the gentoo handbook and be prepared to get 
>your
> > >hands a little dirty.
> > >
> > >Updating the system has been a breeze( "emerge sync; emerge world 
>-uD"), and
> > >I've only ran into minor issues (mainly due to me not reading the
> > documentation
> > >nad doing something to mess up the system)  The gentoo forums are very 
>good
> > for
> > >solving the little issues that can creep up (esp if you fail to keep 
>the
> > >machine reasonable up to date. (at least do it monthly at the very 
>least))
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Dave J. Andruczyk
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>Dave J. Andruczyk
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