[Techtalk] Learning distro: Gentoo or Linux From Scratch

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:45:41PM -0500, Tracey Grrl Geek wrote:
> One of the best things I like about Gentoo is being freed from RPM
> problems. I don't run into Catch-22 loops of library dependencies like I
> did with RPM distros (I've used RedHat & Mandrake). Also, if there's an
> application that is not in the portage tree, I can always install it
> myself from tarball / source and not break any RPM database.

The old process of downloading individual RPMs and installing by hand is
not an issue anymore, even on Redhat systems.

I highly recommend that anyone with Redhat visit the Fedora project's
website at http://www.fedora.us. They have apt-rpm available, which lets
you do the easy "apt-get install blah" command that we all love so much
on Debian systems.

Further, they have all of Redhat 8 and 9 in their repository, including
security updates. So an "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" every few
days keeps things running nicely.

To get started quickly just download one RPM (apt). See the short HOWTO
for the details: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO

-- Carlo