Re: Garnome vs. Gentoo.

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Pat Suwalski">

> I have a buddy who religiously uses Gentoo. I recommended Garnome to him
> but he said he was happy with what Gentoo gave him. Sure enough, at first
> glance, their Gnome2 stuff seemed pretty up to date.
> 
> So although I've done zero actual research, I'm wondering if anyone knows
> how up to date Gentoo's release is with respect to Garnome?

Gentoo is a complete GNU/Linux distribution with an aim, regardless of its
whole "build everything from source" ethic, of shipping stable software for
*users*. They, for instance, probably wouldn't (certainly "shouldn't") ship
any of the 2.1.x series, and development versions of various applications.

GARNOME is a build framework for *testers* of GNOME software. Thus, shipping
2.1.x and development versions of various applications is perfectly
reasonable.

Please don't misunderstand GARNOME -> it's there for testers, not for users.
I just go a long way to make sure testers can use it easily.

- Jeff

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