Hello! I heard many good feedbacks about gentoo. So I decided to try it. So far, everything worked. As a newbie, I first chose to install the gentoo-sources. It was a quite easy task. Proud of my success, I decided to give a try with the mm-sources.
Ok, that what not so easy as for the former kernel. I ran in some well known issues, like the riscom8 one or the mm/filemap.c bug. The most difficulty I had was to locate where the problem occured (I had to send the console output to the serial port so I could trace the problem)... But then, it worked!! I'm now running the "bleeding edge kernel technology", namely 2.6.0-test3-mm2 with SMP + Preempt support ;-) The next point I'm eager to try is NPTL. I would like to have the latest version available, namely 0.55 (the v0.28 available with glibc-2.3.2-r1 is too buggy for me). For this, I need to install glibc-2.3.2-r3. How should I proceed? From my understanding, a simple emerge glibc won't do the trick, since the current (stable) package version is 2.3.2-r1. That's probably already described somewhere in the gentoo forum. But I have really a hard time in browsing/searching in the threads :-( Whether I didn't understand the philosophy of the search engine, or the search engine isn't yet powerfull enough... A thing that I'm really missing is the gentoo counterpart to the "FreeBSD Handbook". Or... Did I missed it? ISTM that one has to search accross the web to be able to use gentoo. First, it's extremly time consuming. And second, that's not acceptable for business purpose (although for hacker purpose, that's fine. I think, I will switch to gentoo at home). Thanks in Advance, Loic. -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualit�tssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
