Okay, I like gentoo
I’m most of the way through installing my first gentoo build, and
there’s a lot to like about it.
- emerge makes sense, at least on the surface
- the rc system is far more logical than any other I’ve used
- it follows a very important rule: "where things are configurable, offer sane defaults that won’t be wrong, even though they may not be as finely tuned"
The install process is completely unguided, but there is VERY good step-by-step documentation. I’d like to see some of these common tasks packaged up into an installer for less technical users, but for those so inclined, it’s really nice to be doing the install inside a running linux system instead of having to drop out of the installer when you want a shell.
So far, thumbs up.
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