Why Gentoo?

[InTheFlow]

Does anyone know why the Sage TV Developers choose the Gentoo distribution over all the other Linux distos available?

[gplasky]

Why not?

Only they would know. But there has been a lot of talented users that have installed it and documented some of the installs on other Linix distros.

Gerry

[bcjenkins]

SageTV is providing Debian installers now as well as tarballs. Ubuntu and other Debian based distros should be able to take advantage of these quite easily.

B

[InTheFlow]

I was asking because I was wondering if there was an advantage to using gentoo over the other distros or not.

[bcjenkins]

Gentoo is "better" if you don't mind compiling your code because you can tweak settings to optimize binaries.

B

[stuckless]

The problem that I have had with gentoo.... is keeeping it up to date. I used to run gentoo on both my server and desktop, but if I went a month or two without doing an emerge, then I had issues.

If you are setting up a "stable" server for running sage, then you might want to consider a Ubuntu distro with LTS. Hardy (8.04, due this month) will have LTS, so it may be a good choice as a stable server platform. I currently run Sage on 7.10 and I haven't had any issues, so I'm not sure if I'll upgrade to 8.04 when it ships or not

my 2 cents.

[schmots]

I used to be a die hard gentoo user, however it doesn't have the upkeep it used to, its floundering. I built my system on an ubuntu server edition setup.