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[Peter Lehrer]

Good advice. I will try it out. Thanks for your input.

Peter

> Love gentoo..
> Was openbsd user prior and when I switched to linux looked for something
> that would be similar.. gentoo fit the bill nice..
>
> Most distro's install a bunch of garbage that some 13 year old on crack
> compiled (take mandrake on a P4 for example).. Gentoo is a bit more work
> to set up, but well worth it for optimizations and if you are like me
> and fully lazy about patching..
> Meaning, you can cron up the "emerge" tool to update your software
> nightly so you are always up to date without having to think to about it
> and you just need to run the built in tools for checking changes to
> config files (which emerge nicely also does not clobber) and with a
> world make.conf for always compiling stuff with mysql support etc et al
> it is a dream for a sysadmin.
> Pretty much the only distro I will use, think about using, and recommend
> to programmers. For linux newbs, Mandrake or Redhat are fine to wet your
> feet..
>
> -cheers
>
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 13:14, Peter Lehrer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone has experience with Gentoo and how it
>> stacks up against other linux distributions, especially Fedora.
>>
>> Also, does anyone have any experience with skunkweb
>> (http://www.skunkweb.org) and/or python and postgres, and care to share
>> their experiences with them?  What kind of learning curve is needed for
>> python, for instance?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
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