[ale] Distro

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Jan 3 08:52:17 EST 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 17:42, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 16:10, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > Gentoo would be good if you had a large number of identical machines to
> > install to. Do one big emerge/install to one machine and then dd the
> > drive around to the others. Or maybe rsync. Once you get past about 2
> > machines, Gentoo is way too slow to install with. Needs _fast_ hardware
> > for all that compilation.
> 
> Please understand that under Gentoo, the choice to compile everything is
> just that - a choice.  You can install binaries and you won't hurt for
> much.  You may have to compile a kernel; I'm not sure how how mandatory
> that is.
> 
Gentoo has changed from the early days when I first tested it. 

> Jeff
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