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decklin:
This is true. I run FreeBSD on a spare computer and I appreciate having the ports system. On this, my main box, I'm usually doing something in the foreground so there's not much CPU left for compiling. (This is a what... 500mhz... yeah.)

iKitten:
During such a case, Portage always has the precompiled binaries to pull from.  It's what I love about it.

starkruzr:

--- Quote from: iKitten ---Eh, we all have our own biases.  Mine tends towards Gentoo's Portage (similar and definiatively copied from BSD's ports, but hey, that's the name of the open source game).  You can get precompiled builds through Portage, but the default is source and automatic compilation.  Making ebuilds is the easiest thing, and even if the creator/distributor of a peice of software doesn't want to, the community will get it done before you know which way is up.  And unless I'm in a rush, I always compile from source.  Great functionality and the ability to get as close to the bleeding edge as you want.
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Gentoo is terrific - if you have a machine on which it isn't incredibly, incredibly painful to compile everything from source.  The system I run Linux on is a PII/400 :)

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