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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Chris Faulkner > 615-653-4400 (Skype: chris.faulkner615) > Linux/Unix/Windows Network Engineer > > LinkedIn TeamNashville Group: 1100+ members: > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=76329 > BBS Enthusiast group: http://groups.google.com/group/80sbbs > -- Chris Faulkner 615-653-4400 (Skype: chris.faulkner615) Linux/Unix/Windows Network Engineer LinkedIn TeamNashville Group: 1100+ members: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=76329 BBS Enthusiast group: http://groups.google.com/group/80sbbs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
