On 9/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pete Hunt</b> <<a href="mailto:pete@ninjafriendly.com">pete@ninjafriendly.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Richard Williams wrote:<br><br>> Anyone got any thoughts/comments on the Gentoo distro - complete newbie<br>> but believe in learning by finding out what goes on "under the bonnet" -<br>> of course I may live to regret that last statement. :)
<br>><br>> Richard<br><br><religious war><br><br>Personally, (having played with Gentoo for a few months) it seems a lot<br>of faffing about compiling stuff for little return on the time spent<br>(from an increase in / optimised performance argument). If you really
<br>want that use Linux From Scratch.<br><br></religious war></blockquote><div><br>
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I quite agree.<br>
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I once tried installing gentoo on an Epia Nehemiah system. It took
about a day to download and compile a basic system. Of course, the next
thing I did was try to install vim, but unfortunately, I accidentally
chose gvim instead. I left it for the best part of a week before I
realised it was trying to download and compile a whole X install. <br>
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My Epia system now has Debian installed. It took one afternoon. <br>
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IMHO, Gentoo is probably best reserved for 64 bit chips or unusual
architectures. I definitely wouldn't recommend it as a first linux
distro.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If you fancy the idea of using Gentoo, use it. You may be jumping in at<br>the moderately deep end but you'll learn useful stuff and it is a distro
<br>that's designed to be poked and prodded about. Just ensure that you<br>still have a means of Googling when you break something.<br>
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I like that: "WHEN you break something." :)<br>
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Of course, now that I think about it, you don't have to compile
everything you install in gentoo. Maybe I should try breaking out those
isos again...<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>-Matt Dancer <barodato at gmail dot com>