3 Feb
2005
3 Feb
'05
3:35 p.m.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:20 pm, Richard A. Franklin wrote:
I have thought that a Gentoo install would be a nice way to sit out a snow storm.
Actually, what you do NOT want to do with gentoo, particularly on an older, slow machine, is to babysit the compile phase of the install. Get it started, go away, and come back later. Seriously, like check back the next day.
As for using binary packages, the whole point of gentoo is to have everything optimized to your machine. If you're going to use binary packages, there are better distros to choose.
(Gentoo binaries would be useful on a machine where you didn't care about performance and which needed to fit in to a gentoo environment.)