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<pre wrap="">The long term strategy is to let up2date die and replace it with
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>something else (like a graphical yum, or smart if it matures fast
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>enough).
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Portage. Let's get Fernando interested in Gentoo instead. He could
build the apps there and we download them using portage instead of
apt/yum.
I think it would be very cool since Gentoo supports many more apps than FC.
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Hey Mark,<br>
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Can you tell us what Gentoo has over FC from an audio perspective? I've
only used Red Hat RH8, ES3, FC1/2/3 and Knoppix. So, I'm in the dark
about it. Their website has some intriguing text, but the use of it by
users, especially audio users, really tells the story.<br>
<br>
Some questions off the top of my head:<br>
*, <span class="code">how is "emerge
--sync" different than apt-get or yum? They all seem to do basically
the same thing.<br>
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</span>* When you say that Gentoo supports many more apps than FC, do
you mean it would be a superset of the support that FC3 has? Would I
miss _any_ of the apps I enjoy now from PlanetCCRMA (and beyond)?<br>
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* The gentoo website lists this as a feature: " Various optimized Linux
kernels"<br>
Does it include the latest real-time kernels that we get from
PlanetCCRMA? Or is that a silly question?<br>
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* How is it's usb facilities? (I like that it support AMD64, but so
does FC3. It's in the details that is a problem.)<br>
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It seems to me, from both FC and Gentoo sites, more people are working
on FC than Gentoo. Don't know if that's good or bad. Could go either
way ;-)<br>
<br>
brad<br>
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