Alternatives to Fedora Core, was: [RULE] APT, YUM...

[Ingo Lantschner]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:55:41 -0400, Da Worm <daworm at comcast.net> wrote:

> I built a Gentoo system on a Sparcstation 20 with
> a 60 MHz processor and 4 Gig drive.  The CLI portion took about a day,
> KDE took 10 days, non-stop.  Not many people are going to want to wait
> that long.  I did it to see if it could be done.  Well, yeah, it can,  
> but why?
well, it can, if you have uninterupted power (electricity) for that long  
time - but what about enviroments where the power breaks every hour or so?!

I think for our systems and projects we are forced to stick on precompiled  
binaries - also because compiling adds one more step between the  
IT-illiterate and the "user". The amount of what someone *must* learn, to  
keep a system up and running on his or her own should be minimized as much  
as possible - at least for our (VUM/BnB) clients.

Regards, Ingo.


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