Some of you may be interested in a small follow up to my gentoo talk. Version 1.4 release candidate2 has now been released for a while. The cd download is now over 500MB
BUT you do get a whole lot of precompiled binaries. At first glance this seems to defeat the point of compiling for your processor, but there is an iso for each architecture, so presumably you still get optimised binaries, although I haven't confirmed exactly whats on the new cd's. The avaiable iso's seem to be (ix86 only, I haven't investigated the other architectures, but there seem to be ppc and sparc directories on the nz mirror) athlon-mp athlon-xp athlon i586 i686 pentium3 x86 Personally I would wait for 1.4 final if I was about install gentoo, and then work from there. For those that want to look around the available packages and iso's the NZ mirror is here http://linux.citylink.co.nz/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/ and the very good documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/ Enjoy! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
