On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: > >> Gentoo (about 6 months and >> loving it). >> >> The main thing I love about gentoo (other than the geek >> factor) is the emerge facility, which I gather I get about >> the same with debian's apt-get. So I thought I should try >> it. > > "At the risk of straying even further off-topic, can I ask > what you " ;-) , may I ask you why you want to drop Gentoo > and use Debian (guess: compile times :) ? You guessed right, mostly. It's also so that when people say "why don't you use Debian" I can have something to say other than "I've never tried it". Both somewhat weak answers, but part of the Linux culture seems to be trying new things out, eh? And there never seems to be an end to the old machines that can be resurrected by Linux.
