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Story: Linux goes Live on Gentoo CD release

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 15 December 2004, 11:27 PM)

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"I really hope gentoo grows (more) in popularity so people will stop offering open source software in binary packages."

Well I think Gentoo's install time of an entire weekend is the reason why I prefer binary installs, since they only take an hour or so compared to Gentoo's weekend installation time. Plus what are you going to do about the third party software that are proprietary and they don't want to show their source code? You're going to have that for linux just like you do for windows whether you like it or not.

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