On 2010-10-01, Al <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> You're running Gentoo Windows? >>> >>> Yes I do. >> >> Someone is confused. ?I'm not sure who tho. ?:/ >> > > I run Gentoo on the Cygwin layer on Vista to be precise. There is no > Linux kernel.
Wow. I never realized that could be done. Tres geek points for ya. I think our ignorance is understandable when the first paragraph at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml states quite plainly that: What is Gentoo? Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that ... > Others run Gentoo on BSD, on Interix or Irix, where there is no Linux > kernel. Linux and BSD et al. are pretty much just "Unix" (trademark and IP arguments aside). > I have a build script that needs 12 hours to compile the system > packages on Cygwin including the GCC compiler itself. The mind wobbles... I knew you could run all the underlying stuff (bash, python, gcc, etc.) on Cygwin, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that it's technically possible to run Gentoo. I'm still a bit surprised that anybody actually does it. I've been using Cygwin for a lot of years, so I'd be willing to bet that installing IA32-Linux-Gentoo on a windows-hosted VM is probably easier (though of course not quite the same thing). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My pants just went to at high school in the Carlsbad gmail.com Caverns!!!
