As soon as I get a free weekend here I am going back to Gentoo. I have given Ubuntu what I consider a fair shake and it just doesn’t live up to the hype. It does do some things for you that are nice. Binary installs are faster, install is faster (and I do like to start fresh now and again, since old installs get krufty, and I hate that, it grates on me). However, it’s just not enough. Portage is king. There is no substitute.
apt-get.org is all well and good, but monodevelop has seen 2 (count ‘em, 2) releases and I have seen no move on the repositories, while Gentoo has .9 in masked. I tried to install JDE today, didn’t work, it installed emacs and half way through it died on me. Sorry. Not. Good. Enough. If I am gonna install stuff from source and fight to get new stuff, I am gonna do it with the best package management system there is.
No offense to Ubuntu fans, it really is a good distro. However I am a big fan of Gentoo, and I haven’t gained enough in the plus column to stay with apt and Ubuntu.
Ricers love Gentoo.
But anyway, if you “aptitude remove jde” and then “aptitude install emacs21″, emacs would install just fine. jde seems borked. Yeah, I know, nothing ever breaks on Gentoo.
I never said things don’t break in Gentoo. I also gave ubuntu a couple of “atta boys” . It’s just not enough to want to stay.
You know, it’s funny, but I think I may install Gentoo on the new rig just to see what difference that dual-core gHz gives me in compile times. I’m finding some things that are missing from Ubuntu as well… It’s great for my laptop, though.