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		IgorPartola on April 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu low-memory install for VMs Compare a multi-hour bootstrapping process of Gentoo with the under 10 minute installation of Ubuntu. When you are trying to quickly bring up a new server (especially as the old one is failing), this counts. Also from my years of using Gentoo, you had to babysit a large portion of the initial installation.

misnome on April 9, 2013 [–]

Along with having to spend a load of time re-reading the documents because you aren't installing your system on a weekly basis.

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