I've got the spare time, why not? Good way to learn Linux too, I guess. Justin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Hansman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 8:42 AM Subject: Re: Review of Gentoo ( fairly long ) > Nope but it has a very good installation procedure on the website. Just print > it out and follow it step by step. > > It really makes you learn how your system is set up....so it's a good learning > experience at the very least. On top of that you get a clean and optimized > system. > > I highly recommend it...but only if you fast connection to the net and are > prepared to wait a day or two initially while it compiles all your programs > for you. > > Later > Simon > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:29, Justin Soong wrote: > > I'm very interested in Gentoo. But is the installation not in GUI? > > > > Justin > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 10:59 PM > > Subject: Review of Gentoo ( fairly long ) > > > > > Maybe Chris could still do the Gentoo anyway as well - probably a bit of > > > interest in that (I know I am intrigued). > > > > Unfortunately I can't be at the meeting on Thurday, so here's my take on > > Gentoo ( The Smallest Penguin btw ) > > > > I have only had Gentoo on my newly aquired machine, which is a 400MHz PII, > > more of less since I got it about 3 or 4 months ago. The reason I use it > > is because I desperately wanted to get out of the rpm dependencies jail > > into which the rpm distribs want to put you as soon as you want to change > > something. As an inveterate fiddler I find the fact that you cannot update > > your rpm files safely unless they are created by the distributor, and > > frequently not even then -- distributors who btw are just as able to err as > > the rest of us -- just so restrictive as to be irksome. For example I could > > not get Mandrake to upgrade successfully from 8.0 via 8.1 to 8.2 without a > > total re-install of the O/S. The source distribs, of which Gentoo is but > > one, > > just remove that restriction. > > > > That's the main reason, the others are that the Gentoo team don't add their > > own 'features' to the apps, you get what the progams' authors intend you to > > have. Upgrading an app is as simple as saying: > > > > emerge rsync > > emerge app > > emerge clean > > > > and Gentoo takes care of everything. Even upgrading the glibc because of > > the recent overfow bug is done in exactly that way. > > > > The Gentoo distrib. is well documented at the right level for me. > > The Gentoo Team take a _great_ deal of care to get it right, you only get > > loaded onto you computer what you ask for. You are in control of what goes > > onto you machine. > > > > Need I say more? Only to say that while the initial setup process is > > improving > > all the time, it's really not aimed at the newbie. ( Unless you can compile > > a > > Kernel successfully, don't even nightmare about installing Gentoo all by > > yourself! ), but once the system has been installed initially, any newbie / > > fool / halfwit can use it and keep it up to date. The whole point of Gentoo > > is simply that you can set the machine's exact architecture into a config > > file and the binaries you generate will be optimised especially for your > > machine. No stupid nonsense such as running old style i386 binaries on your > > latest and greatest machine when it's got the very latest, and under those > > circumstances, totally wasted, extended instruction set. > > > > For the whole story I'd suggest looking at the web site, paying particular > > attention to the links down the LHS of the page. > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/ > > > > ps Is this kind of thing ok going to the list? > > Or would you prefer it to be on a web site, with just a pointer url in the > > e-mail? > > -- > Simon Hansman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
