Dear All,
Thanks to everyone for your advice. I really appreciate it.
I think you've convinced me that:
a)I want to have a go with Gentoo.
b)That everything I want/need can be done, and done well.
c)That it will take quite a bit of time (but be worth it)
Given (c), I shall probably stick
On Sunday 01 January 2006 13:35, Richard Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly
about binary packages)':
Thanks to everyone for your advice. I really appreciate it.
I think you've convinced me that:
c)That it will take quite a bit
Dear All,
I am a newbie here, and I wonder if I might ask you a few questions
about Gentoo. I've looked on the Gentoo website, but can't see answers
to all of these.
Basically, I've now used Mandrake/Mandriva for the last 4 years, and
become fairly proficient with it, but am considering that it
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:24:58 +
Richard Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk
space for sources or CPU power to compile everything
kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that
will get me a fully
On 29 December 2005 17:24, Richard Neill wrote:
1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk
space for sources or CPU power to compile everything
kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that
will get me a fully working system within a
You cannot really stay current on binaries but you can gradually
convert your
binary installation to a self-compiled one. You said above that
your *main*
machine was a laptop with insufficient harddisk space and CPU
power. That
implies you do have at least one other box. You could keep the
Hi,
Most of your questions have been answered by more knowledgeable people
on the list than I. However, I do I one comment:
Richard Neill wrote:
4)Does anyone know of a good resource for ex-mandriva users?
I can't say enough good things about Gentoo documentation:
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