On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:26:11 -0700 Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All is well in gentoo land (for me at least). > > 1) As you may know, gentoo has released the 1.0 version (after a year or > more of hard work). The good news for faithful lackeys like me (rc6-15 > level) is that no upgrade is required. All you need to do is follow a > few simple instructions to upgrade to the latest portage, and there is a > followon script to update the list of installed packages to be analyzed > when you issue emerge update world (update any packages that have newer > versions). > > 2) I managed to gimp something royally in the update process and > destroyed portage (the rest of the system was running ok). Never fear, > there is an emergency package on the gentoo cvs site to rebuild portage. > > 3) The documentation is improving. The new installation instructions > are quite accurate. I haven't actually installed the beast again, but > you now have two choices - 1) put up a fairly complete set of binary > packages or 2) put up a minimal system and emerge from sources as in the > past. Still no orderable CDs, yet. > > 4) The new portage guide is quite usable, and it is being updated > continually. A lot of the details you had to dig out of the archives in > the past are now easily found. > > 5) The kde3 release was superb for me, since I've never tinkered with > any of the beta releases. Those who already had a beta kde3 experienced > considerable difficulty. Everything, including sound!!!, is working as > advertized. I've already blown away kde2. I'm listening to The > Chieftains as I type. The only problem is, the volume delivered is not > very loud. I did discover that the CD Player will only work with > /dev/sr0 (even though /dev/cdrom and /dev/sg0 are linked to the same > underlying scsi device.) > > 6) The noise level is up on the gentoo-users list, because lots of > newbies are pouring in and lots of folks are trying all those strange > and wonderful things that bring tears to your eyes on any distro - > laptops, all the flavors of DSL, raid setups, LVM, gnome beta stuff, PPP > and modems, printers, etc. > > 7) I just completed making the microsoft tt-fonts available to X, and > now kde3 is a little more readable. > > 8) I may experiment with FreeBSD again one of these days, and I may > return to the xfce environment, but I won't be experimenting with any > other linux releases. This one is solid gold!!! If I ever get around > to putting a scanner and a color printer on this system, I might even be > able to convince the rest of the family to give it a whirl. > > 9) It all works, baby. > > Enjoy, > -- > Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? > Gentoo_rc6-15(1.0) 2.4.19pre - kde3 + sylpheed + mozilla > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. Collins I have a compac armada laptop coming with 32 meg mem. Will gentoo run under this distro with xfce? cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In Linux we trust! _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
