Thank you for the offer - I'll probably take you up on it! I will probably give it a try. I believe that Gentoos approach would fit the way I work. I normally install Linux and then only upgrade when I have to - I do try and keep up with a stable kernel but I don't do everyone. As for apps the ones I use a lot I'll keep updated and if I need a new one I'll go get it.
I do have Caldera WS 3.1 installed on one system but I'm migrating away from it. I installed RH 7.3 on a new system I have but I left partitions for three other installs. So with RH 7.3, I don't plan to upgrade to 8.0 - I was just going to do my own upgrades as necessary. Sounds like Gentoo lets me setup a system and then upgrade as I desire. I have a dual Athlon 1.9 system that I have the RH 7.3 on and would put Gentoo on that one. As for KDE and Gnome - I got tired of KDE's bloat with 2.2.1 and mainly their "yes we know it's broken but that will be fixed in the next release X (where x from 1- ???) months away. Till then use our betas - yeah! right! put a beta on my production system!! I've been using Gnome on RH 7.3 but haven't gotten used to it and don't know where things are on it. I have two annoyances with Gnome (at least that's all I've found so far) - 1). When you log in as root you get a message warning you and you have to click okay. You can not disable the message I know that being root can be dangerous but there are some things I do with a GUI because it's convienent and I want to use it as root and don't need someone telling me every time about it - do it once, let me disable it 2) they have a "Start Here" with various system functions that pops up every time I login and I haven't found out how to get rid of it. Both things remind me of MS products - we know better than you! I did ask about the warning message on a Gnome RH mailing list and after being told you couldn't disable it I got flamed for using root by one of the contributors to Gnome! Give me a break people! I was looking at doing xfce just before I moved and may get back to it again. snips > > If I can help you in any way, let me know. I've just reenabled my > gentoo system after a couple of months toying around with RH 7.3 (it's > also a quite reliable distro) and getting tired of the hunt and peck > approach to finding new packages! > > People on this list (well some anyway) got tired of hearing about the > advantages of gentoo, so I don't report anything very often. > > As an example of package availability, the ink isn't even dry on > mozilla 1.2.1, but gentoo already has a standard ebuild which I just > completed installing. > > You'll either love gentoo and wonder why anyone except a raw newbie > uses anything else, or you'll hate it. Using the latest gentoo > livecd (1.4+) and one of the pre-packed tarballs, you can get up and > running with a completely usable system in less than 2 days (lots of > compiles). Add an extra day for kde and/or gnome, if you are of that > persuasion (I use xfce). Note that you can do most all of this from > your currently running system (chroot to the partition where gentoo is > being built) so that you can be having fun while the compiles churn > away in the background. > > Just a note if you try it - watch your USE variables. Gentoo will by > default drag in kde and/or gnome as a dependancy for any package that > has (or seems to have) optional features that require kde and/or > gnome. What looks like a simple package install (xfce for example) > could easily expand to 24 hours! Be sure to do 'emerge -p > packagename' to have portage tell you the dependancies in advance. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
