From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-09-11T14:04:46+09:00
Subject: Re: What Linux distribution to choose for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:00:57PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> I'd say the same goes for (pure) Debian. The base network install CD is
> under 200 MB, and you can even boot up a Debian box from scratch over
> the network from no more than half a dozen floppies, and if you're
> lucky, you only need two. Once you get the base built, you can rebuild
> packages from source if you need to for speed as easily as you can
> emerge a package from source with Gentoo. But ... I went down the Gentoo
> path and I'm not turning back. :)

Much as I prefer Debian over Gentoo, I don't know that I'd say you could
rebuild packages from source for performance as easily on Debian as
Gentoo.  Maybe it's close enough, though.

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