Ubuntu and Kubuntu vs. Mepis.... Gentoo?

Wed Apr 5 10:05:46 CDT 2006

Jeremy Fowler <JFowler at westrope.com> wrote: Why has Gentoo fallen out of favor? Doesn't anyone use Gentoo anymore besides me? Gentoo's portage and emerge utility rivals that of Debian's app-get. 2006.0 LiveCD even has a graphical installer available, though any true Linux user should be ashamed of using such a thing. ;-) I find building and compiling a fresh Gentoo installation very satisfying. I would have thought there would be more people like me on the KLUG list... 

I use Gentoo on my web server and my file server.  I built them both from Stage 1.  My web server runs a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading and my file server is an AMD 64.  Both have 1 gig memory.  I enjoy working with Gentoo since I know I can compile it to run the best on whatever system I'm running.  I don't have to accept the lowest common denominator package and I don't get a bunch of junk I don't want preinstalled.

I have another AMD 64.  Next, I think I'll build a database server.  I have a copy of Oracle 10g I'd like to play with at home.  Maybe throw on Apache, PHP, Perl, Java, and MySQL too just for fun.  This box will definately stay behind my firewall.
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