[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[Darragh Bailey]

Quoting nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie:

> yes gentoo has ebuilds for all sorts of shite :p
> especially americas army, which I cant get enough of.
>
> Quoting Colm Buckley <colm at tuatha.org>:
>
> > On 22 Jun 2005, at 17:33, nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie wrote:
> >
> > > americas army ? , neverwinter nights ?
> >
> > These are redistributed as part of Gentoo?
> >
> > > nvidia-kernel , nvidia-settings , nvidia-glx
> >
> > All in Ubuntu.
> >
> >      Colm
> >


That is definitely the major thing that I like about gentoo, even where a
package or application cannot be distributed via portage the ebuild to wrap it
and install it can.

As a result if you have the binaries you can use the existing ebuild for the 3rd
party app to install. Beats having to always look up the internet for any
pre-existing spec files to build an rpm of a third party package.

--
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"