Well, Synaptic and apt-get would freeze when they tried to read my RPM package list. I rebuilt my RPM list (finally), and gues what...it still freezes.

How does Gentoo compare to Red Hat 9? I like the simplicity of Red Hat and all, but this is getting old. Is Gentoo good at recognizing hardware?

Gentoo does next to nothing on it's own, so it's no better/worse than any [good] distro out there at that. Support for hardware is in the kernel, build the kernel right, and you've got the support that any other distro can offer

How does it compare, it's hands down, fifty times better of a distro. IM-not-so-HO on this, I think RH has fallen behind, specifically in perfomance when compared to nearly every other distro...

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true if you consider updating every single pacakge on your system the the latest stable release by just one single command 'net to nothing'

for opinions on gentoo, there are a number of reviews for gentoo in the reviews section.

I think RH has fallen behind, specifically in perfomance when compared to nearly every other distro...

Could you back that up and give us some good stats? TIA

Uh.. he he, not really Sucks when I get called on my completely biased, yet un-based, opinions

However, what about it's i386 optimizations? At least with Mandrake it's i586, which does make it less compatible for older systems, but makes it run faster on newer ones, no?

I don't know why, but for some reason I always "speak down" when referring to Redhat. I don't mean to make it a personal attack if you (or anyone) takes it that way. For example, I know DavidPhillips has said he uses it, and he very obviously knows far more than I, so there is something I am missing.

Now that I've tried to backpedal my way out of my words above I will try to back em up..

To me, RH aims at ease of use more than speed optimizing. It also aims more at compatible than speed. So for compatibility and ease of use, it's up there with say, slackware. But for speed, IMO, it's just not up to par with distros like Mandrake or Gentoo.

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As for Gentoo, I think I didn't make my stance clear. I really LOVE it. I've been using it for a couple weeks now, I meant "Gentoo does next to nothing on it's own" to mean that you don't have to wonder what's going on with your distro without you asking for it.

Man, what a bad reply, 2 of the most intelligent members on this board question it

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I tried Gentoo on my laptop, it's actually a nice idea. In the end I decided to go with Slackware. It seems to be more willing to accept whatever you want to do with it for some reason. Building one up from zipslack into a full system is a real fun ordeal. Almost like LFS but in my opinion it's better.

I still want to give Gentoo another chance, only not with a modem connection. I did a ground up build where I should have got the complete system from my home connection.

I like redhat because of the up2date, which runs on my system at home without doing anything, completely automatic. I depend on it to be there at all times. It's surely on the conservative side when it comes to the kernel, arch, filesystem support, etc..

this statement is so true...
any system can run at peak performance if configured correctly, there's also a lot to be said for reliability. If you have the time source rpms are good to use with RedHat.


I'm not too sure about the accuracy of this one..

I don't know about anybody else but if your all like me, you think you know very little, when it seems like everyone else knows so much. I guess it's all part of the mystery of Linux.

It's always nice to see your name up there when someones talking about Linux. Even though you know you don't know more than a few well known secrets and have fairly good google skills.