I currently have RedHat 9, why should i switch to Gentoo?

[amne]

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[sundialsvc4]

I don't know why you'd say that, amne. Let's see what he actually does.

As for "Red Hat Nine," I would say that ... you ought to keep up with whatever <your_chosen_vendor> is doing (because they won't reach back to support their "old" stuff...); but if you are otherwise satisfied with <your_chosen_vendor> then you shouldn't feel that you have to abandon them. If you're going to go to the trouble of switching to something fundamentally-different, then you should first know exactly why.

Now, why did I "do exactly that?" Mainly because my depth of experience with Linux had out-grown the limits of "a packaged distro." And the configuration of my system was hopelessly muddled, once I was no longer willing to keep paying for updates. So I carefully backed everything off of it, twice, and nuked everything and switched ... to LFS, and to Gentoo. And reloaded only about one-fourth of what had been originally in my (thrice-updated, hopelessly muddled) RH configuration. The system(s) run like ... a bat out of hades with four angels in hot pursuit.

But before doing that, I made sure that I was absolutely comfortable with "taking charge of the system myself." I left my main systems entirely alone, selected a literally-surplus machine, put RHx on it, then converted it to Gentoo. This machine, upon which there was absolutely nothing that I felt I could not afford to lose, became my guinea pig.

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[knightmare]

Cause on this site you can say "shit", and on the redhat site, they kline ya for it... nuff for me to use it.

[kirillrdy]

Just try Gentoo, and see for yourself. If u'll install it, there is a small chance u'd go back to Redhaty,(esspecially that old)
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