[Techtalk] Debian versus GenToo

[Marize Pommot-Maia]

You may want to read this thread on the gentoo-users list:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/98856

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				Marize Pommot-Maia
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Kathryn Andersen 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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