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I suspect that Arch has displaced a lot of their potential market anyway. Gentoo always seemed to be made up of two groups, the people that wanted a rolling dis
by NikkiA 17y ago
I suspect that Arch has displaced a lot of their potential market anyway. Gentoo always seemed to be made up of two groups, the people that wanted a rolling distribution, and the people that bought into the whole CFLAGS optimisation thing.
Arch pretty much rules the market, atm at least, on the first group, and provides a reasonable approach for the second group, taking away probably some of the more casual 'gotta build everything from source' users.
- jacquesm 17y agoI use Ubuntu here, but still, I can see a certain elegance in building everything from source.
- NikkiA 17y agoI use Ubuntu on my web servers, and archlinux on my general purpose servers... Ubuntu is just so easy to get apache setup right for multi-hosting and general web app setups, the converse is that archlinux is surprisingly difficult to get apache working right (how I want, anyway) on. But that's mostly a function of apache being a pain, and the arch apache setup being largely 'whatever upstream distributes'. Personally tho, I go with binary packages for the most part, I have no real need for compiling everything from source. I did try to install gentoo once, it was annoying and difficult, the installer was hideously out of date compared to the things being installed, and the whole thing fell apart from dependancy problems long before I got a working desktop... And to think I went with a LFS setup a few years ago, and was happy with it for ages (about 2-3 years on my primary desktop).