Couldn't have said it better myself. :-) Needs 64 megs? Why? To speed up the compiling process? Also, If you go with one of the pre-builds, isn't that defeating half the purpose of using gentoo? When discussing it with others, the portage system always seems to be second banana to the fact that you compile everything yourself.
----- Original Message ----- From: "abbott mujica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 12:32 PM Subject: Re: Who is running Gentoo Linux? was Re: [brlug-general] good tutorial for Linux newbies > the only thing that sucks about gentoo is that it requires 64mb ram and that is gay... heh well its cool cuz its source code based but my machine doesnt run on any distro... thats right i have completed the QueefBox its mah baby mommas mommas.. well you get the idea i made it from a rescue floppy... if someone wants to learn linux start with a rescue and a couple of packages (lilo.tar.gz and rpm.tar.gz) and there ya go mount your floppy to like /dev/hdx fix ya /proc and youve got it youve got it bad bah where are you john its may 11 and you left me! well guess what i got a pII machine with 64 mb ram and its gonna run some sort of linux so you better get yo %^^&R*([EMAIL PROTECTED]& over here! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:34:42 -0700 (PDT) > To: [email protected] > Subject: Who is running Gentoo Linux? was Re: [brlug-general] good tutorial for Linux newbies > > > > --- Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Speaking of gentoo, has anyone here tried it? I've > > > been thinking about it > > > myself. > > > > I'm using Gentoo1.1a on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX390P laptop > > and it works great. I like the minimal install and the > > amount of control over the configuration. Because > > Gentoo is source code based, you will have to download > > and compile most every piece of software, unless you > > go with one of the pre-builds. You will have to > > compile a kernel to complete the install. > > > > I preferred compiling everything myself, because it > > gave me a much better idea what was going on with my > > machine. The install doc is excellent. As I mentioned > > to Tim Fournet the other day in #brlug, its kinda like > > a quick and dirty Linux From Scratch. > > > > Be warned that it is a very new Linux distribution and > > they are fixing bugs and security holes and releasing > > updates fairly often right now. But I think it is a > > very interesting distribution that is worth checking > > out. > > > > Good luck, and let me know if you have any other > > questions! > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > > http://launch.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -- > Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org > > > Powered by Outblaze > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
