D vs Java [OT:Gentoo]

[Anders F Björklund]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:

> We still need the find a friendly developer to take care of the ebuild.

A maintainer ? OK, the same problem as with Debian then... I understand.

> Gentoo is too "LFS"? Well, it's already possible to install Gentoo with
> a graphical installer, genkernel eliminates the need to hack with the
> kernel and package management / USE-flag editing do both have graphical
> frontends. The only problem is that there's no handy way to install
> up-to-date prebuilt binary packages compiled with custom use-flags and
> cflags. Debian/Slackware/Arch aren't really much "higher level". 

I like Gentoo a lot, it sort of reminds me of FreeBSD which I also like.
Found that doing a Gentoo install was well documented but very hands-on.

Just that marketing forces has me running distros originating from R.H.
And I still think that Ubuntu and Linspire are less scary for "users" ?

So while I still have Gentoo installed, I don't really use it much :-(
But maybe I should take another look at 2006.0, it looks much improved.

> I'm using Arch myself on slower PCs since portage is currently a bit
  > too "heavy".

Yeah, sounds like "typical Python" :-) But I have never seen Arch Linux.
Sounds like a nice inbetween of Slack and Gentoo, but I might be wrong ?

--anders