Kram:
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Sounds like you're really looking hard for something wrong with it.
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No, I'm looking for any reason to keep it and not finding any
Like I said above, I like the distro, it just is not my favorite.
1) Despite all the functionality, its package management system has limitations like all the rest (package systems), and like all the rest I can do without them
Going and finding packages/dependencies is just fine by me.
2) Still don't care for V init style scripts either, which gentoo employs. While this is a persoanl bias, it's my system
Also the sound is not the only problem. There were a couple more glitches (ie startx did nothing while xinit worked fine) that I ran into and fixed which leads me to another beef
3) Not enough docs exist. Period. And this is just a direct result of lower usage. Do a google search on any gentoo specific problem and the results leave some to be desired. Note this is not a problem with the distro, but a good doc base to search is something I look for. One positive note, the gentoo forums looked good from what I saw, but the gentoo chats are absolutely worthless.
4) One of my biggest beefs is that I did more than a few things that didn't "stick" after a reboot because I didn't do them the "gentoo" way (ie run their commands to finalize, which while not theoreticaly necessary, is for gentoo). While I guess using any distro of *nix comes with its "learn it my way", gentoo offers me no incentive to "learn it their way".
Gentoo does many good things, just not enough to get me to switch.
Scott:
What you will learn is all during the install process if you go from stage 1. It just teaches you the basics of building a linux system with some automation. If you really are interested in this just grab LFS and build the system. You will learn more and end up with the same bare system.
Once you get it installed you are faced with a bare system esentially.
It is now your responsibility to install EVERYTHING you need.
Now IMO you don't learn too much since simply typing emerge kde installs KDE and everything else that it needs to run. While this is not the most efficient way, it is very possible, so you aren't forced to learn anything really. Just that you have to install KDE and some dependencies before it runs.
Note this is also a pain in the ass
It takes forever and there are always things that you forget/overlook from the "premade" distros.
Once completely installed as far as configuring the system and services you learn nothing more, and IMO less, than slack, unless you've never seen V init style scripts before, then of course you learn those, though you are discouraged from editing them by hand and instead to use commands like:
rc-update add alsa boot
to run that module at boot instead of just opening modules.autoload and adding it yourself.
But that's another story
Gentoo is a great distro.
*It has a brand new look at runlevels which I like, though don't find all that useful.
*Its package system is top notch and right up there with apt.
*It is fast. Undeniably fast in a GUI environment.
*and of course every other advantage of linux
Just not my favorite I guess.
Jkrohn
Wow I typed way too D@#$ much
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