[Gloucs] Gentoo

[William Roe]

On Monday, Apr 28, 2003, at 09:48 Europe/London, John McKeown wrote:

> William
>
> Would you do  talk about Gentoo for a GLUG one month?

I'm no authority I'm afraid, just like it. You remember the debian/apt 
talk, well:
s/apt-get update/emerge sync/g
s/apt-get upgrade/emerge -u world/g

It's a packaging system based on BSD ports.
That's the thing really, it's 'just' a packaging system. There is no 
install program really, you do it.

I'm also really bad at doing talks. No, REALLY bad. I wouldn't be able 
to demo installing since that takes...ooohh..about 3 days ;) However, 
if there is ever an install day thing (with either a hugely fast 
internet connection or prepared piles of CDs full of the sources) I 
could help out there maybe.

>
> Or more generally about source-based distros?

I've only used Gentoo, the others are Rock, and Source Mage. Not used 
them since I started with Gentoo when I had a fast enough internet 
connection.

>
>> I've had too many fascinating problems with Gentoo recently

This wasn't meant to sound encouraging ;)

William Roe

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