From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2003-02-11T04:10:26+09:00
Subject: Re: The way of the Gentoo

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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:41, Tom Sawyer wrote:
> speaking of Gentoo. i am a long time Debian user, but i am tired of being
> so far behind the front lines --i have of course added a few unofficial apt
> sources to get newer stuff, but my system has suffered for it. as of last
> night i tried to upgrade to kde3.1 and it failed. now i can no longer use
> konqueror in kde. there are also a number of other issues, and honestly i
> tired of it messing with it. my last ditch effort i guess will be to try
> dist-upgrading to Sarge (testing).
>
> but, ironically, inspired by raainstall, i am thinking of jumping ship and
> moving to a source distribution. looks like there are three good ones to
> choose from: Gentoo, Lunar and SourceMage.
>
> so i 'd like to know more about your expeirence with Gentoo. is it going
> well?

My personal experience with Gentoo has been great. I want to try Lunar out as 
well though. A fellow on irc (xoritor i think?) is a driving force behind 
that distribution and the package management is apparently handled by a Ruby 
application.

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Signed,
Holden Glova
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