Hallo all...

I am VERY interested in Gentoo Linux. I am a long time FreeBSD user and
I have used Linux before. Red Hat 6 was the last Linux flavor I taste
thus that was a long time ago. I haven't followed many Linux news since
then.

If anyone here has used FreeBSD before, probably he/she can shed some
lights on my questions.

In FreeBSD, there are -STABLE branch and -CURRENT branch. Whenever I
want to install the latest -STABLE branch
1. I can go to one of the FreeBSD snapshot servers to download latest
build of -STABLE tree
2. Setup those files thus the installer later can fetch the files from
local FTP server
3. Make the boot disk
4. Boot the PC I want to install using those disks
5. The installer run and fetch the installation files from my local FTP
server (which contains the FreeBSD installation files already)
6. I have the latest -STABLE running in my PC

Later, I install cvsup, I check-in the latest FreeBSD source and port,
then I can recompile the whole world with specific compiler
optimizations, and I can install e.g.: KDE, Gnome from ports.

I am looking for simplified instruction to do the FreeBSD analogy for
Gentoo Linux. Can anyone help?

Thank you

/john


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