Hello! My name is Patrick Hawkins and I just joined the mailing list last week. I'm a relative n00b; a friend set me up with Red Hat 9 almost a year ago and then Fedora Core 1, but I have not been active in updating my machine. I'm thinking of switching distros, and was wondering if anyone who has run Gentoo for a while might mention some pros and cons of running it as compared to, say, Debian. (Those are the two I'm considering). I don't want to start a distro-flame-war, just some bullet point pros and cons. I've Googled some reviews, but I was hoping for some insight from someone who had run both distros for a while. If you've run these on laptops, that insight would be extra-appreciated. Thanks! -Patrick p.s. For all you Slackware heads: I totally respect your distro, but I want a more modern package-management system. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list