[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone here use Gentoo?

[Tom Adelstein]

Normally, I have a box running  gentoo. I still have it occupying 
sectors of a hard drive but it's idle while I'm doing a project.

The performance issue is based on the optimization the gentoo team adds 
to the kernel, libraries and applications. It's very fast and very 
optimized. Even the stock kernel which is simply compiled off of 
kernel.org runs faster.  Gentoo has major security whistles and 
continuous updats and patches similar to OpenBSD.

As a user with enough knowledge of Linux basics, you wouldn't miss the 
RedHat package Manager. Unfortunately, a vast number of Linux users 
haven't a clue about the skills needed to run Linux the way we did five 
years ago. Gentoo appeals to people who have either been around a while 
or who have a knack for Linux.





jrnewsletters at jcrcomputing.com wrote:

> I'm just curious. After being on RedHat for a number of years, I tried 
> Gentoo on both my main home machine and my laptop, and was really 
> stunned as to how much better the performance was on my two machines.  
> And as a side effect, I've noticed that some programs, that claim that 
> they only run on RedHat, seem to work with no problems on my Gentoo 
> box.  And quite frankly, I haven't missed RPM at all.
>
> So I was curious if anyone else here is running Gentoo as I've seen no 
> mention of it on this list.
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