er, that last command should not be "emerge -vuD world" but "emerge -vuD
gnome" or kde or xfce

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Chris Faulkner <[email protected]>wrote:

> If you are building out a Gentoo server, it takes me roughly 2 hours for a
> complete LAMP w/rails server  updated to the newest builds.  I'd say gentoo
> is wonderful for servers as i've built about 15 or so of them and they
> barely need to be touched other than the occasional "world" update.  I run
> Gentoo on my home rig dual booted to WinXP and I can safely say that I
> thoroughly enjoy it.  Yes, it took me about 15 hours of downloading and
> building packages but getting 100+ FPS in World of Warcraft and just overall
> system stability is well worth it.  Just go to sleep when it's building
> packages but make sure the core Gentoo system is patched up to today before
> doing an emerge -vuD world and ensure your USE flags are set for your
> liking.
>
> If anyone ever needs any help with Gentoo, please feel free to message me
> on IM or Skype or whatever.  I don't mind at all.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Chris McQuistion <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I spent some time with Gentoo, too.  Gentoo is similar to Linux from
>> Scratch, in that you have to build everything.
>> I spent more time, just trying to do the basic stuff on Gentoo, then I
>> ever spent with any other distro.  Dozens and dozens and dozens of hours,
>> just trying to get a decent, working system.
>>
>> In the end, I realized that building everything from scratch is an
>> interesting educational exercise, but it isn't really practical for most
>> people, including me.  There is a reason that a lot of people and time are
>> put into individual distributions.  It takes a TON of knowhow to build
>> something really good.  Honestly, I don't have the time and expertise to
>> build something half as good as any of the readily-available distributions.
>>
>> My two cents...
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, t35t0r <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > I was wondering if anyone here has tried this?  I have loaded and setup
>>> > various distributions but have never built a Linux distribution from
>>> > scratch.
>>> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
>>>
>>> The closest I've come to that is gentoo.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>
>
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>
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