RE: Considering a distro switch.

"Mark Morgan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.pdxlug
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Joshua M. Schmidlkofer said:
>
> I switched to Gentoo.  I am finding emerge and portage to be very useful
> and handy tools.  The install for Gentoo is a longer process, but you
> really break out of the packaged vs. unpackages problems with binary
> distros.  The draw-back is waiting for OpenOffice to compile. =).   They
> have been making some binary packages, and there is lots of work being
> done on that.

Been doing Gentoo as well for quite some time now.  Very happy with it on
three different boxes.

Mainly just adding in:  The OpenOffice binary package works well.  I went
with that after a few false starts on the compile. ;)

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Mark
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