Blogging Roller: Gentoo it is not.

Gentoo it is not.

Long story short: I ran into too many build failures during and after completion of my Gentoo Linux installation. I'm not sure if I have hardware problems or if Gentoo's support for my Athlon XP CPU is flakey or what, but I'm out of patience. I'm switching over to Debian.

Dave Johnson in General • 🕒 05:51PM May 01, 2004

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Comments:

I had the same experience you did, it was fun for a while, but after some time the lack of QA became a pain in the ass when your 'stable' emerges fail on a pretty standard architecture.

Have you though about trying Fedora Core?

Posted by Koz on April 25, 2004 at 07:56 PM EDT #

I did consider Fedora, but I decided to go with Debian instead. The install was a breeze and I'm working on setting up Apache HTTPD -> Tomcat.

Posted by Dave Johnson on April 26, 2004 at 02:48 AM EDT #

I will have one year on May 3rd since I run Gentoo Linux on my computer and except very few ebuilds who failed and I just injected them everything works fine. I'm not even using the stable version since there all the updates come to slow. My laptop is a Sony Vaio FXA-53 with a AthlonXP 1300+. You may check if you messed something with your config files before thinking to other distribution.

Posted by Petrica Ghiurca on April 28, 2004 at 07:54 PM EDT #

Oh, I checked. I checked and checked. Then I checked again. I bet it was a hardware problem that somehow tickled Gentoo and gcc, but not other distributions. Who knows. In the end, I just ran out of patience and took the easy route - I installed Debian.

Posted by David Johnson on April 28, 2004 at 11:47 PM EDT #