OT: distro comparisons

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 8/24/2006 9:14 AM, Edward Barrow wrote:
> Harold Aling wrote:
> 
>> I just migrated all my machines from Gentoo to (x)Ubuntu, because I had 
>> to spend too much time keeping Gentoo updated and upgraded all the time, 
>> with a lot of breakage along the way.
> 
> I've just done pretty much the same, and for the same reasons, although 
> to Debian etch rather than Ubuntu. I will, however, probably make 
> Xubuntu the default distro for users' machines.
> 
> There's a lot good about Gentoo, but for a vanilla x86 machine the 
> performance gains simply aren't outweighed by the maintenance costs. I 
> now have to find other times to do all the things I used to do waiting 
> for Gentoo ebuilds to compile...

Please end this thread here.  Distro comparisons -- and inevitably,
arguments -- have no place on this list, unless we're talking about
distros with Xfce pre-installed.

	-brian

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