On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:31:17AM +0200, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 21:12, you wrote: > > Gentoo. > > Lean and mean. I approached it just for curiosity and I think that I > > fell for it. > > I installed it on Compoaq Presario 900 (a very hard case) with almost > > no problems and use it as playground. > > Google for Gentoo and read about typical implementations. > > Moish > > I am writing this E-mail on Gentoo, with Kmail compiled from source, it took > me 4 days to install all the staff, but I finally have exactly what I want. > The problem is: I am new to gentoo and I don't know how to manage ~30 machines > with gentoo, compiling from source on every machine is out of the question, > some machine will take weeks to finish, I know about stage3, but still I will > have to compile some things and create my own stage3. > I don't know how to handle automatic security updates without compiling > either. > > Setting a local binary DB is an option but still portage is very new to me. > I must say it's the best distro to compile with. > Only one compile stopped on me and that because I was missing one USE flag > when compiling ocaml. > I added the USE flag and emerge ocmal again and that was it.
Note that you'll have to make that system somehow hardware-dependent. At least CPU-dependent. At least if you'll want packages optimized for the CPU. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
