Comments on: Gentoo 2006.0 review http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2006/05/15/gentoo-20060-review/ Linux, Open Source, and Tech Journalism Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:56:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris Phillips http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2006/05/15/gentoo-20060-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2934 Chris Phillips Sun, 28 May 2006 02:53:42 +0000 http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2006/05/15/gentoo-20060-review/#comment-2934 @Jeremy Did you know that there are binary builds of Firefox and OOo in portage? They've been standard for quite awhile now, they're usually ahead of the source builds even. You could also just download the official binaries... I did that before the binary portage builds. OS X is great though, I wish either Gnome or KDE would snap together as well as it does. @Jeremy

Did you know that there are binary builds of Firefox and OOo in portage? They've been standard for quite awhile now, they're usually ahead of the source builds even.
You could also just download the official binaries... I did that before the binary portage builds.

OS X is great though, I wish either Gnome or KDE would snap together as well as it does.

]]> By: Jeremy Collins http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2006/05/15/gentoo-20060-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2840 Jeremy Collins Mon, 15 May 2006 16:57:14 +0000 http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2006/05/15/gentoo-20060-review/#comment-2840 I used to use Gentoo until I grew tired of rebuild Firefox or Openoffice or X every time a new release was made. One thing that I really did like about it was how easy it was to build a new package file (ebuild). You could have your own local portage tree with your custom build files. Really made managing a system with odd ball packages or perhaps beta builds much nicer. I'd have to say that my ideal system these days is OS X + DarwinPorts. DarwinPorts gives me fairly quick access to all that GNU goodness and still gives me the ability to quickly create new packages for software that isn't yet in ports, like vim 7.0 for instance. I used to use Gentoo until I grew tired of rebuild Firefox or Openoffice or X every time a new release was made. One thing that I really did like about it was how easy it was to build a new package file (ebuild). You could have your own local portage tree with your custom build files. Really made managing a system with odd ball packages or perhaps beta builds much nicer.

I'd have to say that my ideal system these days is OS X + DarwinPorts. DarwinPorts gives me fairly quick access to all that GNU goodness and still gives me the ability to quickly create new packages for software that isn't yet in ports, like vim 7.0 for instance.

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