On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 01:23:01AM +0200, Oleg Kobets wrote: > 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
Have you encounter problems of source dependencies (some package depends on some versions which conflict with other packages?) Even if you hadn't these sorts of problems, is the gentoo team guarantees that such problems will be avoided? What about configurations? How much time, if at all, you had to spend for reading documentation in order to configure the packages properly? > 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] > -- 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]
