[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu and Archlinux Dual boot

[Ritesh Sinha]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:37 PM, C S Shyam Sundar
<csshyamsundar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gentoo is a pain to maintain, and I would recommend it only if you
>> have a use case that justifies it. I was an avid Gentoo user in
>> college for three years, where I had the time to recompile the kernel
>> and other packages to enable/disable features. This is of course
>> solved if you use the genkernel script to generate the kernel in
>> gentoo, but that for me that would defeat the purpose of using of a
>> source only distro which allows customization and tweaks.
>>
>
> Not entirely true. I work for a company where we have production servers
> running on Gentoo. Note that we have to maintain our own binary repo. But
> the performance is phenomenal.

That is exactly what I'm talking about. If your use case needs that
extra performance it is the way to go. Not entirely useful for a
desktop system where updating updating KDE will cost you a day in
compile time (building from source of course, not a binary package).

>
>>
>> As far as support goes, the gentoo wiki used to be quite well
>> maintained. Not sure if that's the case these days.
>
> Gentoo Wiki is maintained.
> IRC is friendly for support.
>
>> Again, don't bother with Gentoo if you don't have time to invest. Not
>> saying it's a bad distro, in fact it is quite the opposite if you have
>> the time and energy to set it up to your liking.
>
>
> True.
>
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