I've been running Mandrake since 7.1 as my primary home workstation. As i've
written here before I've become increasingly frustrated by the RPM
system. It locks me into apps and configs I don't want. So, increasingly
I install a bad mix of precompiled RPMs, source RPMs and source files.
Obviously I am looking for trouble on a system that must be trouble
free.
So, recently I fried my glibc and everything I tried with rpm caused seg
faults. So in a fit of stoopidity then deleted the contents of /var/lib/rpm.
For those of you who use any RPM based distro, don't delete the contents
of /var/lib/rpm.
Look:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm]# rpm -qa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm]#
Yeehaw. Can not install or upgrade any rpm package cause the system
thinks none are installed so all dependencies are unmet.
so, when I saw the note on this group that gentoo 1.4 was ready for my
taking I thought I'd give it a try on a different machine -- an HP
Netserver LC3, dual PIII450 with 4 4.3 Gb SCSI drives. This is also my
first experience in working with a dual CPU machine or with SCSI.
It is now my 4th day with Gentoo. I have never had so much fun.
Everything about it makes sense, respects the user and gives the user the
tools and the info what we need.
I suspect in due time i will switching my main machine to Gentoo.
One thing though -- Gentoo is a huge disk hog. I've spent a lot of time
sizing partitions and sym linking directories to allow for how much
storage it requires.
As in most things Linux i consider myself a complete newbie. if I can
get this stuff to work most anyone can. It just requires a lot of work
and time.
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Keith Robinson
"We are enthusiastic yet humble workers."
Pablo Neruda
