I think this is a good idea, though I expect it to be far more complex than a standard (Redhat/Mandrake) installfest. As such, I would suggest that the organisers have a "practise" run with a few experts who are willing to give Gentoo a try - so that some of the issues can be ironed out earlier. Personally I'm willing to come along & help out, and I'll bring my box to help out with the distcc compile effort.
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 11:16 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD) > > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:22, you wrote: > > Gentoo is looking more feasible by the minute...I am running out of > > excuses not to at least try it. =) > > Does all theis interest in Gentoo mean that we are going to > have to organise a > Gentoo Installfest? > > Not as silly as it might at first seem because it would then > allow the sharing > of the portage tree. Mine is now at something of the order of > ~1.7GBytes. > Some of it might be old files, but I did have a big purge not > so long ago. That fileset could be shared around to minimise > download bother, also gentoo > can now use the distributed compiling idea, so a group could > probably get it > all going pretty quickly - In a living memory time-span anyway :-) > > Remember that the installation of Gentoo is not for the total > newb, but > getting new packages and doing upgrades is totally ( 99.999% > :-) free of > problems. > > Note that the Gentoo Weekly News reports today that the > Gentoo system has been > ported to the the Darwin Kernel on PPC. You can now have all > your X11 based > toys _and_ Photoshop etc on the same machine without rebooting! > > -- > C. S. > >
