[ale] Trustix Secure Linux
Brian Pitts
bpitts at learnlink.emory.edu
Wed Sep 6 11:23:44 EDT 2006
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
> When I've dabbled in other distros over the past couple years, one of my
> pet peeves has been this thing where you have to find the right
> repositories to get various things.
This has always been an annoyance to me when using Fedora, which I
otherwise like quite a bit. Once I enable universe and multiverse in
Ubuntu, I rarely need to leave the official repositories.
> In Gentoo-land, there's really only
> one (although people can and do maintain offshoots), and if what you
> want doesn't have an ebuild in Portage, you can always grab source and
> pretend you're on Slackware, because the build system is a given on a
> Gentoo machine.
When I last played with Gentoo my only computer was a 500mhz PIII with
256mb of RAM. Attempting a stage 2 install was a mistake that left me
with a (probably unfair) negative impression.
-Brian
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