gentoo

[Nathan]

 I would have to agree here.. Gentoo did take a bit more to get up and
running, but it is defiantly worth it.. That said, though, it depends on the
platform you are wanting to run it on.
 Being stationed in Turkey with dail-up I had my brother in the states send
me the PPC ISO on cd ( 8cds ) as well as any other stuff I would like to add
to my kernel..
 The initial emerge on both G3/300's took about 75mins from start to
finish.. Not to bad.. However on my 8600/300 with 1.5 gig of ram on board it
took 30+hrs.. Now I know some of that can be attributed to cd-rom access
speed, however, that is still ALOT of time. Something to keep in mind..

 But I would also agree that I would not go back to YDL now after running
Gentoo. I still have 3.0.1 on my 8600/300 for refrence and to poke around
with once in awhile.. But I don't miss the headache of RPM's that only
partially complied, if they even d/l'ed correctly in the first place...


Just my $0.02


-- 
Nathan Templeton
G3/300, 8600/300, 7200/120, 6400/180
OS 7.1 -10.1, Win 3.1 - XP, SuSE, YDL, Mandrake, Debian
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on 3/23/04 12:29 PM, Simon Slaytor at sslaytor@talk21.com wrote:

> I wouldn't call myself a Geek, but I'm currently running Gentoo on my
> Dual G4 Gigabit.
> 
> No Gentoo dosn't have an installer like Yellow Dog so it takes a little
> more work to install and get running, but it's not difficult and the
> instruction are actually very good.
> 
> So why run Gentoo? well two reasons for me first it's way way way more
> up-to-date than YD. I'm writing this e-mail on Ximian 1.4 running on
> Gnome 2.4.2, Mozilla is 1.5 (popup blocking yeah!) and my kernel is
> 2.4.24 The second reason for installing Gentoo over YD was portage.
> 
> If your familiar with FreeBSD / NetBSD etc you'll know all about the
> ports collection. If not let me give a brief example.
> 
> On Gentoo if I wanted to install OGLE (DVD Video Player, requires DeCSS
> etc), I simply call up a shell do a CD to /usr/portage/media-video/ogle
> I then type emerge ogle. The Gentoo emerge system then takes care of
> downloading OGLE and all dependencies, builds each one from source and
> finally installs OGLE onto my Gnome menu.
> 
> No RPM's no missing / outdated libs etc it just works. You can update
> your entire system as easily as emerge sync (get's the latest portage
> collection) emerge --update --upgradeonly world (upgrades everthing to
> the latest version included in the portage list)
> 
> All I can say is Gentoo is worth the little extra effort needed to get
> it installed and running, plus you'll have a much better understanding
> of Linux after it's done.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 11:51, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
>> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 00:30, Larry Autry wrote:
>>> It only took a glance at the Gentoo install doc to help me decide not to
>>> install Gentoo. The document does not read like an install guide as does
>>> the YDL install doc. It reads more like a reference book than a how-to.  If
>>> I need a reference book, I'll download it. As an install document, the
>>> document attempts to cover way too much territory. That's about as kind as
>>> I can be.
>> 
>> The point is: you'll need that reference book to install Gentoo (which I did
>> on the PC but not on the Mac). I did it mostly to get a better understanding
>> in how Linux works.
>> 
>> Gentoo is not in the same league as YDL. It's clearly a distribution for
>> Geeks.
>> 
>> Thierry
> 
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