El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 16:25, Grant Edwards escribió:
> On 2009-02-04, Jes?s Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es> wrote:
>
>> El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 8:39, Alan McKinnon escribi?:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I personally don't view Gentoo as a "distro" in the traditional
>>> sense. To me, it's a build system, an app - portage or paludis - and
>>> the devs that make cool input files for that app. Building a distro
>>> from scratch for embedded devices is a painful process if you don't
>>> have an automated build system. It's not quite a trivial exercise, but
>>> portage does make it a whole lot easier.
>>
>> That's mostly what I call a "metadistro". A set of tools and
>> instructions to build a proper distro that suits you, and maintain it.
>
> Except that what you build and maintain isn't a "distro", it's
> a single machine.
That I only know ;)
It's up to you if you reuse the distro on a second machine
or on a whole cluster. And certainly, Gentoo provide the means
to reutilize whatever you compiled and configured on many machines,
like with catalyst and the newer metro tool from drobbins.
--
Jesús Guerrero
