On 9 Feb 2006, at 23:56, James McCarthy wrote:
> Whats the difference between Gentoo & any non source based distro (not
> including slackware)?
Gentoo is for hippies, or for people who like to waste cpu cycles.
It can be good for certain situations, like build optimised once,
never patch again - coz
this will waste cpu cycles....
> Productivity.
> I'm after spending the last 5 hours trying to get it installed & I
> give up, I'll just use Ubuntu.
Good choice, you will not notice any difference in speed between the
two to be honest.
Regards
Conor.
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