I have worked my way through the installation of Gentoo 2008.0 from the LiveCD (amd64), running into several wrinkles along the way, and eventually overcoming most of them. I plan to document the process at another time.
I want to express my joy at the result (except for some personal errors, perhaps). This system runs MUCH faster, and more efficiently than it did on Ubuntu. 1GB of RAM was often topped out on Ubuntu, but on this machine even with four compiles going at once, I seldom saw more than 5 or 600 MB of RAM in use (using HTOP and Gnome-System-Monitor). I am evaluating how much of the improvement may be from running XFCE4. If it's a substantial difference, I may use this more, and Gnome or KDE less. I ended up, for now, installing this as one big partition, on a 74GB drive. I will split partitions later. Thank you to the list members who answered my earlier queries. Alan -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man "We have no art. We do everything as well as we can." ---Balinese saying
