Re: [SLUG] Gentoo getting better

2005-10-05 Thread slug
I think this was it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman If you want me to delve into conf.d I can to help. Otherwise the gentoo forums are excellent. Best advice I have encountered. (I'm using KDE 3.5 beta1, live dangerously :) it seems more stable btw) Sounds great. I will have to try it.

[SLUG] Gentoo getting better

2005-10-04 Thread Richard
Im not usually a Gentoo fan boy, but the latest screen shots for there next release are really making me thing about installing it. http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=460slide=1 I like the look of the new installer (I can imagine the ricers complaining right now) and for

Re: [SLUG] Gentoo getting better

2005-10-04 Thread Kevin Saenz
I have been using Gentoo for 3-5 months, and have found it to be less bloatie, and a little more reliable compared to RH, Mandrake. I never enjoyed Debian. I started getting annoyed with precompiled packages. I have been told I'm a source junkie, and Gentoo suites me to a T. My windowmanager of

Re: [SLUG] Gentoo getting better

2005-10-04 Thread slug
We use gentoo most places now. The new installer is pretty but very much alpha software (as of 1 month ago at least). We've got it running on AMD64, PIII, PIV and P-M all tuned and boy does it make a difference. Distros I've compared are Ubuntu on a PIV and Debian on AMD64. It is faster than both

Re: [SLUG] Gentoo getting better

2005-10-04 Thread Marek W
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 10:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you still have the URL to this page? HAL/DBUS support never quite worked on my machine, I'm trying to set it up now, but the instructions I found refer to an older version of the packages and no longer appear to be relevant for:

Re: [SLUG] Gentoo getting better

2005-10-04 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:45:33AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got it running on AMD64, PIII, PIV and P-M all tuned and boy does it make a difference. Distros I've compared are Ubuntu on a PIV and Debian on AMD64. It is faster than both standard installs if compiled for the platform.