Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compile error G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE

[Jim Segrave]

On Fri 20 Jul 2007 (15:44 +0200), Achim Mueller wrote:
> * Christian Anthon <address@hidden> [070720 15:16]:
> > On 7/20/07, Jim Segrave <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >Gentoo is the most flexible, but the most work - you have fine grained
> > >control over everything.
> > >
> > 
> > Gentoo is my personal favorite as well. It does take a while before
> > you have everything just the way you want it, and even then there is a
> > bit of extra work involved.  I coexist fairly well with fedora (and
> > Debian) as well. I have bad experiences with Ubuntu. So all in all, if
> > I was you I would stick to suse as you seem to prefer to have a system
> > that just works for you.
> > 
> > Christian.
> 
> I used Gentoo from 2003 - 2005 and was quite satisfied with it at that
> time. Then my mainboard crashed and I went to a different architecture.
> I had to setup a new system quickly and chose SuSE-9.X. 
> 
> On a notebook I used kubuntu for a while until I was faced with some
> weird kernel driver problems regarding my pcmcia wlan card.
> 
> I haven't followed the progresses of Gentoo, is it possible to install a
> precompiled current version now? A new system from scratch will last
> around one week (I guestimate).

There's a fairly large set of precompiled binaries available (I
believe) - X, firefox, thunderbird, mozilla, and open-office are
available as binaries. You can have a usable system after a day's
work, but I don't disagree that getting things "just right" can eat up
a lot more time


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Jim Segrave           address@hidden