Guys, I just finished installing Gentoo 1.2 with X and KDE 3.0.2. 1. It rocks. 2. It is very fast. 3. It took me 2.5 days non stop compiling to install base, xfree 4.1.2, kde 3.0.2 and koffice 1.2-rc2 4. IT ROCKS :-)))))))
If you want super fast linux that is simple to maintain (not install) as debian, Gentoo is your choice. Oleg. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaul Karl" <shaul@calanit> To: "Martin Polley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ishai Parasol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux Mailing-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:11 PM Subject: gentoo (was: lite distributions) > > Have you looked at Gentoo? It's definitely not a beginner's distro, but= > > > you can install as much or as little as you want. > > = > > > And it is supposedly very fast, because you can compile EVERYTHING from= > > > source (with local optimizations). > > = > > > Isn't compiling major packages like xfree and KDE takes a lot of time? > Do they get some kind of configuration so that one can run > gentooConfigure > and get himself the executables or is he supposed to delve into READMEs = > > and these sort of stuff? What about dependencies like pacakge1 has to be > compiled with gcc 2.95 while package2 must have a library that should be > compiled with gcc 3.1? = > > > Am I making things more complicated then what they are? Can the answers = > > be obtained quickly and easily from their site or by doing a fast search > in the web? > > Does someone here actually run a full gentoo distribution? What about > A light one? > > > > www.gentoo.org > > = > > > HTH, > > = > > > Martin Polley > > Technical Communicator > > http://www.surf-com.com/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 > > Mobile: (053) 864-280 > > ICQ 15617901 > > = > > > = > > > = > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ishai Parasol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:16 PM > > To: Linux Mailing-List > > Subject: lite distributions > > = > > > = > > > Hi > > = > > > I'm planing a litlle home network with a gateway & firewall on the firs= > t > > box, and then 3 old boxes (pentium 100 or so with 500mb hd) that suppos= > e > > to serve http, mail, ftp, etc for the outside world. each box should > > have no more than apache+ftp+ssh or postfix+ftp+ssh without any X or > > other stuff. What I don't know is which distribution should I use for > > the boxes - I need somthing that will work with this kind of hardware > > and disk size and still be able to compile and run the latest versions > > of apache, postfix etc. I'm doing this for learning purposes and I don'= > t > > expect too many hits on those servers so performance should'nt be a > > problem. > > = > > > Any good advices ? > > = > > > Thanks, > > Ishai. > > = > > > = > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the wor= > d > > "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo > > unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > = > > > =FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FFTo un= > subscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > = > > > -- = > > > Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t > > > -- > > Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
