[Scottish] Gentoo Linux

[Paul Millar]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, William Anderson wrote:
> Last time I tried it was on a
> PII350 with 64 meg RAM, and I think it took about 8 hours or so to get to a
> place where i could login and do stuff.

Probably worth pointing out you can do the (at least initial) compilation
inside another distro (ie inside a chroot-ed environment). So you can surf
whilst gentoo does its stuff.

Not tried it myself, but same mate who tried RH8.0 got so hacked off by it
that he installed Gentoo the same night.  He says its much better,
provided you're the kind of person that likes mucking about with source.
It might be a bit daunting if you're not.

Paul.

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