Linux distro with ports/package type system?

[Bakki Kudva]

I have  built both Gentoo and FreeBSD on an old laptop (Pentium II
400MHz with 384MB of RAM). The down side of both Gentoo and Ports,
especially if you want to build a desktop env like Gnome plan on a
week or more of build time. My latest experience with the ports was 2
weeks for the total build. It built 330 packages, skipped 200 and 77
failed. I had originally installed 6.0 binaries and after the build
gdm is broken, wireless networking is broken. Haven't had time to
troubleshoot yet.

On 5/15/06, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> That would be in fact Gentoo Linux.
> It's the only Linux distro I know that has a collection of files which
> describe the packages to install, sources, etc like FreeBSD's ports
> makefiles (they call them ebuilds), and compiles programs based on a
> local distfiles repository, like FreeBSD. The thing that's different
> about Gentoo than most OSes though is that it is a Linux distro where
> EVERYTHING (unless you specify a location to find binary packages)
> compiles and installs from scratch. So I'm not sure if you want to go
> that route, and I'm not saying it's a perfect system by any means, but
> in the event that Windows breaks (or I get tired of Windows (;..) I
> always have something to go back to, Unix wise, that has a lot of
> software functionality and is pretty stable. The best piece of advice
> regarding Gentoo that I can give is don't go for the hype, but rather
> for the options (software options that is), because you have the ability
> to greater customize your OS-for better or for worse-depending on what
> compile options you choose and the software you install.
> -Garrett
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