I also think this is a good idea, but maybe not as a "public installfest" like the Mandrake/RedHat ones. Just a small gathering of everyone on the list who wants to try Gentoo (*puts up hand* ;-) or who wants to get updated packages quickly for their current system (if they're on a modem connection at home). If you can share the portage tree... and you can share the compiling...
Could we have, say, everyone who gets an install up and working leave their machine running to help others who are still installing? Is it just me, or would that be _damn_cool_? ;-) Cheers, Gareth >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >I think this is a good idea, though I expect it to be far more complex than a standard (Redhat/Mandrake) installfest. As such, I would suggest that the organisers have a "practise" run with a few experts who are willing to give Gentoo a try - so that some of the issues can be ironed >out earlier. >Personally I'm willing to come along & help out, and I'll bring my box to help out with the distcc compile effort. > >Brad > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 11:16 p.m. >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD) >> >> >> 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. >> >>
