On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Todd Walton</b> <<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/8/07, David Champion <<a href="mailto:dchampion@visionary.com">dchampion@visionary.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I know some people really dig Gentoo, and that's fine for them, but can<br>> you seriously in good conscience say that it's easy to use?
<br><br>No, but for the parameter in question, easy package management, I have<br>yet to see anything as easy as Portage.<br><br>And I'm serious.</blockquote><div><br><br>Year ago, before anyone was using Gentoo, the main contributor to the project was writing articles about the package manager on IBM's developerworks website. My impression of the project was that written documentation and the package manager were foundational priorities in the Gentoo community.
<br><br><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Making the distribution, Part 1</span></font><br>Birth of the Gentoo Linux distribution<br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dist1.html">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dist1.html
</a><br><br>I don't know if Gentoo has migrated to be more of an easy-to-install version of Linux. When I tried it last it was still encouraged to build all the packages from scratch.<br></div></div>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum
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