On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:24:54 +1300 (NZDT) John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hokay, so I have just tried gentoo. > > Got it installed, mostly working. > > Now I have to re-install again. I made a very obscure mistake. > > I compiled it -march=pentium4 -O3 > > No problem. > > Except that puts mmx/sse instructions into the libs like libc. > > But I make heavy use of valgrind, which can't, as yet, grok mmx/sse > instructions. > > And _everything_ uses libc. > > So I basically have to redo my gentoo install. > > Hmm. There are some things I like about gentoo, some things I don't. > > Like whenever I reach for yet another app, its not there and I have to > emerge it. Bugger. yeah but you don't have to find the cd! I find it easier on smallish apps to do something like emerge tcpdump, and a couple of minutes later you have the command at your fingertips. recompiling X/kde etc is obviously a pain though. > > Conclusion. > > Gentoo is a good one for learning and in depth fiddling. I have learnt a > thing or three about how modern linux distros work. > > Gentoo is certainly not a good newbie distro, as a very experience linux > user I enjoyed the "hands on" feel like I haven't had since the days of > early Slackware. > > Deadbat is hiding too much from me. I don't like Deadbat, its too slick, > it hides too much, it buggers up my life too much. It is starting to feel > very windowsy. Many murky things go on hidden under layers of glueys. > > Gentoo also not a good distro for the power user who urgently needs to get > things done _now_. > > I think its back to Debian for me. > > Will anyone have a set of the 8 "testing" (sarge) Debian CD's at the > meeting tommorrow? > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New Zealand > > Good Ideas: > Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang-org - The best of perl,python,scheme >without the pain. > Valgrind - http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ - memory debugger for >x86-GNU/Linux > Free your books - http://www.bookcrossing.com > >
