Hello: Santanu Chatterjee wrote, > I installed Gentoo 1.2 yesterday, but I found that it was not what I > had in mind !
Heh! > I felt that in order to even get into X, I needed to download the > required packages from the net using emerge. Yep. Thats how ports based distributions like *BSD and Gentoo work. [godzilla] /usr/ports/distfiles> du -sh 851M . KDE, GNOME, X are the nasty ones to download! > Did I buy the wrong CD, The Gentoo CD only has a bootstrap environment which gives you a compile environment from where you can use emerge to download sources, compile them with your CPU settings. > or is Gentoo only for those having fast internet connection? IMHO, yes. > (Where I live, the download speed is < 1 kbps most of the time.) Ports based distros are for power users who want absolute control over the compilation and installation of applications and the base system. For instance, I compile and reinstall my base system every week. Typically takes 4 hours for a complete upgrade. Once you are hooked onto ports, you are never gonna do an "rpm -ivh" or an "apt-get install" ever again. -- Shanu http://shankerbalan.com/ -- Linux Bangalore/2002 Technology for a Free World December 3/4/5, 2002 http://linux-bangalore.org/2002 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
