Which distribution of Linux do you use yourself? From what you've heard, what's Gentoo's stability like? ----- Original Message ----- From: <dking@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Talking Gentoo? > I have friends who swear by Gentoo, but I have yet to find a speakup > enabled version of its install; From what I understand the initial > install of a gentoo system is even more straining then a debian > install, but just as with debian makes up with it when maintaining > it. > > Gentoo is in fact much more bleeding edge then debian ever will be, > from what I understand they often use direct cvs code in there > builds. > > - D > On 17 May 2004 at 0:25, Jayson Smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > Thanks to everybody who got me going with a Speakup-enabled 2.6.6 kernel. > > And now, for another question. Currently I'm using Debian 3. However, I've > > always been a bit fascinated with Gentoo's Portage system, which downloads > > packages as source then compiles them right on the spot. I probably won't > > switch actually, but has anybody managed to get a talking Gentoo install > > using Speakup, and if so, how? > > As for stability, etc. is Gentoo pretty stable? I'm using Debian 3 stable > > which, as many of you probably know, is quite a bit out of date. I would > > assume Gentoo would be more current. > > Thanks for any advice and thoughts. > > Jayson. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
