[plug] gentoo

[Craig Dyke]

William Kenworthy wrote:

Bill

I would have to say that SourceMage is great for linux people of all levels.
If you are a noob you can sit back and 'cast' away till your hearts 
content and let
the Guru's default settings do it all for you, but, if you are the 
experienced user / admin
you have the option to VERY easily customise everything.

For an interesting comparison with Gentoo, try this:   
http://www.sourcemage.org/Gentoo

Craig

>How do you find sourcemage compared to gentoo?  I find gentoo is getting
>a bit too civised and tame (i.e., they are doing too much protecting the
>user from himself, with which I am starting to feel "restricted")
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>BillK
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>On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:50 +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
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>>Jim Householder wrote:
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>>I hope you enjoy your experience with Gentoo.
>>I too tried it a while ago and had issues with the setup, but happy to 
>>say most were
>>from misunderstanding of how they did things.
>>My only real complaint was about the time taken to get setup from the getgo.
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>>I currently use another source based distro called SourceMage which I have
>>found to be most productive.
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