Dave, I couldn't agree more.

I never tried BSD myself, but I did try to coexist with Redhat and then
SuSE and both left a bitter aftertaste. :)  Whereas Redhat is sort of
optimizable, SuSE was not very tractable in that regard.  But sadly
enough, both Redhat and SuSE are slowly but surely approaching Windoze.

With Gentoo, not only can you tune and performance-optimize your box, you
retain the feel and stability that is always advertised about Linux.

I am getting brave enough to consider the idea of using Gentoo to deliver
laptop-aided presentations for scientific seminars.  I haven't researched
that topic very much yet, but this is where stability and dependability
would count the most for me - the ability not to worry that my Powerpoint
in Windoze will crash during a talk.  I haven't seen anyone present with a
Linux laptop yet...  Any of you tried it?  I'd love to know!!

Many thanks to Gentoo again...  and Happy New Year to all :)

Denis



On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, David Hunter wrote:

    I just thought I would take the time to make the positive reply.
GENTOO is the best distro I have ever used. I'm a BSD guy, and M$ (hate
to say it) but Gentoo is good enough that my primary workstation at home
is now gentoo, with XP on my secondary box.
It just works. I understand it, there is no crazy archane structures, it
just works. I used to use SuSE but as often as not, if I could do it on
XP I would. Now, I only use XP as a back up.


Dave



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