On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:22, you wrote: > Gentoo is looking more feasible by the minute...I am running out of > excuses not to at least try it. =)
Does all theis interest in Gentoo mean that we are going to have to organise a Gentoo Installfest? Not as silly as it might at first seem because it would then allow the sharing of the portage tree. Mine is now at something of the order of ~1.7GBytes. Some of it might be old files, but I did have a big purge not so long ago. That fileset could be shared around to minimise download bother, also gentoo can now use the distributed compiling idea, so a group could probably get it all going pretty quickly - In a living memory time-span anyway :-) Remember that the installation of Gentoo is not for the total newb, but getting new packages and doing upgrades is totally ( 99.999% :-) free of problems. Note that the Gentoo Weekly News reports today that the Gentoo system has been ported to the the Darwin Kernel on PPC. You can now have all your X11 based toys _and_ Photoshop etc on the same machine without rebooting! -- C. S.
