Gentoo is aiming to distribute binarys early next year. With Daniel Robbins now paid by a corporate sponsor to develope Gentoo, It's safe to bet that this will happen sooner rather than later. They are certainly aware of the source based limitations, however they are also aware that it offers some advantages
Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: Re: RE: (clug-talk) Quick Debian Install - an offshoot > > Mark Lane wrote: > > >Gentoo probably runs even smaller and speedier but > > >is more involved to install. > > >www.gentoo.org > > > > Hmm, anyone want to compile linux on a 486? Gentoo is a source based > > install and it would be futile to attempt to install it on a 486 50MHz > > machine unless you can wait a long time for the install to finish. > > when I needed to build gentoo for my p150 I built the 586-optimized > (oxymoron, I guess 586-targetted) gentoo on my much faster workstation, > to get it over I just pulled out the disk in my p150 and put it into my > workstation to copy everything over, put it back, used the gentoo install > (and boot) cd to boot up, chroot, install grub, eject cd, reboot, done. > word of warning: getting gentoo on to a slower machine is only half the > battle, you still have to maintain the machine (vulnerability updates > etc) which means more compiling, which is really slow, relatively. for > older machines, I wont learned my lesson and will go with a binary distro, > in the future, tho I hate rpm and apt isnt that much better. > > Dave > > >
