Re: Gentoo'ised Ubuntu

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:35:47 -0700, Geico Caveman wrote:

Ubuntu has much more user friendly way of doing things, and has more
seamless hardware detection out of the box. I will confess that my
experiences with Gentoo are limited.

That is true, but I think manually compiling is much harder on Ubuntu
than on Gentoo. Compiling is 'natural' on Gentoo, while Ubuntu is not
designed to cope with manually compiled packages and you'll likely
encounter problems.
.

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