[Techtalk] Debian versus GenToo

[Finne Boonen]

my (very biased, and prolly not really founded on something experiences)
(also, I first tried slackware, then debian, and then gentoo, so I
knew more about what I was doing while installing gentoo then while
installing debian)

- Debian has a tendency to brake if you're trying to stay semi-up to
date (not the latest versions of everything, but not the 2yo version
either)

- Debian wasn't very friendly when trying to get non-free .debs, I've
had better experiences with getting Gentoo to do similar things

- debian is much easier to configure Xfree then gentoo


as to the faster thing, I don't notice huge differences between debian
and gentoo on the same machine.


Finne


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:57:13 +1000, Kathryn Andersen
<kat_lists at katspace.com> wrote:
> No, I don't wish to start a religious war. 8-)
> I am trying to assess whether I should switch over from Debian/Testing
> to GenToo, by asking you folk who would likely have experience of both.
> What are the pros and cons?
> Obviously one pro is that GenToo is likely to run faster, and one con is
> that it's harder to install.
> 
> - What's the relative bandwidth consumption of keeping up to date with
>   GenToo as opposed to Debian (I'm on dialup, so this is important)
> - How stable is GenToo?  Is it like running on Debian/unstable all the
>   time, as one is downloading the latest source versions of stuff?
> - Is there a GenToo equivalent of apt-proxy if I decide to change my
>   laptop to GenToo also?
> 
> Kathryn Andersen
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