gentoo vs. ubuntu

dc12volt · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 2 Location: In my go-kart

Which do YOU think is better? I tried the live CD for Gentoo, and have Ubuntu as my normal OS, and I'm a Linux beginner, so I personally like Ubuntu, but they seem almost alike.

P.S: If possible, please post reason for vote.
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Naib · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject:

gentoo has its place as does ubuntu

Gentoo has a place on my desktop

Ubuntu has a place on my desktop's VM as well as my works laptop

horses for courses
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dc12volt · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 2 Location: In my go-kart

What? (towards moocha) Also, which is better for RAID?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Tried Ubuntu under VMware, and was annoyed at all the BS dependencies. Gave up trying to "minimize" an install fairly quickly. (Yes, Gentoo has some annoying deps. too, but fewer).
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codergeek42 · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:44 pm Post subject:

Gentoo and Ubuntu both have entirely separate goals and target audiences. You can't easily compare the two because of that.

Gentoo, for example, as a target audience of tech enthusiasts and people who like to tinker with things, whereas Ubuntu's target is the end-user who simply wants to get some work done without fuss of configuring things.

Gentoo is a source-based distribution, which means that installing packages takes a longer time (due to the compilation), but that provides some benefits in terms of configurability over the binary packages provided by Ubuntu which are less time-consuming to install, but may or may not be configured the way one would prefer.

Really, the best choice is to try both for a long time and see which one you are more comfortable with. Perhaps even bring other distributions like Fedora into the mix.
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Earthwings · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

Moved from Gentoo Chat to Duplicate Threads in favour of Ubuntu vs Gentoo
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