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>>> On Thursday 01 Apr 2004 10:00 am, SS <Supreet Sethi> said:
SS> As a developer who is trying to get juice out of the system gentoo
seems SS> very attractive.
SS>
SS> But one problem I faced is lack of eco-system around the distribution.
SS> I would like to see people making binary gentoo packages and
exchanging SS> them.
SS> I do'nt see any other way to install system in two hours.
SS> When I tried it took me 3 days to get and compile all the package that
SS> I needed. And I am not of kind who would try too much stuff
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Gentoo has been providing pre-built binaries for quite some time now. The
latest release from gentoo (gentoo 2004.0) has stage 3 tarballs for GNOME,
KDE, mozilla, openoffice etc. All these pre-built packages are available for
download from the gentoo mirrors.
The Gentoo Reference Platform (GRP), which is a snapshot of prebuilt packages
provides optimized binaries for x86, i686, pentium3, pentium4, athlon-xp,
Gentoo Hardened profile, amd64, sparc64, ppc, G3 and G4. Take your pick!
All the stage 3 installation asks you to compile is the kernel, and even that
can be avoided by using the genkernel script which builds the generic kernel
(though I would never suggest using it).
The gentoo LiveCD ISO's provide all the binaries.
Check "releases/x86/2004.0/livecd/" in any gentoo mirror.
BTW, if you own an athlon-xp system, you can have the gentoo 2004.0 ISO's from
me. I have th following:
install-x86-minimal-2004.0.iso (80 MB)
install-x86-universal-2004.0.iso (688 MB) (works with any x86 based system)
packages-athlon-xp-2004.0.iso (639 MB) (optimized binaries for athlon-xp)
packages-athlon-xp includes:
xfce4-4.0.1, mozilla-firefox-0.8, mozilla-1.6, kde-3.2, gnome-2.4.2,
apache-2.0.48, mysql-4.0.16, qt-3.3, sylpheed-0.9.4, evolution-1.4.5 etc.
Regards,
Bhaskar.
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