Gentoo news

[Rick Sivernell]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:26:11 -0700
Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> All is well in gentoo land (for me at least).
> 
> 1) As you may know, gentoo has released the 1.0 version (after a year or
> more of hard work).  The good news for faithful lackeys like me (rc6-15
> level) is that no upgrade is required.  All you need to do is follow a
> few simple instructions to upgrade to the latest portage, and there is a
> followon script to update the list of installed packages to be analyzed
> when you issue emerge update world (update any packages that have newer
> versions).
> 
> 2) I managed to gimp something royally in the update process and
> destroyed portage (the rest of the system was running ok).  Never fear,
> there is an emergency package on the gentoo cvs site to rebuild portage.
> 
> 3) The documentation is improving.  The new installation instructions
> are quite accurate.  I haven't actually installed the beast again, but
> you now have two choices - 1) put up a fairly complete set of binary
> packages or 2) put up a minimal system and emerge from sources as in the
> past.  Still no orderable CDs, yet.
> 
> 4) The new portage guide is quite usable, and it is being updated
> continually.  A lot of the details you had to dig out of the archives in
> the past are now easily found.
> 
> 5) The kde3 release was superb for me, since I've never tinkered with
> any of the beta releases.  Those who already had a beta kde3 experienced
> considerable difficulty.  Everything, including sound!!!, is working as
> advertized.  I've already blown away kde2.  I'm listening to The
> Chieftains as I type.  The only problem is, the volume delivered is not
> very loud.  I did discover that the CD Player will only work with
> /dev/sr0 (even though /dev/cdrom and /dev/sg0 are linked to the same
> underlying scsi device.)
> 
> 6) The noise level is up on the gentoo-users list, because lots of
> newbies are pouring in and lots of folks are trying all those strange
> and wonderful things that bring tears to your eyes on any distro -
> laptops, all the flavors of DSL, raid setups, LVM, gnome beta stuff, PPP
> and modems, printers, etc.
> 
> 7) I just completed making the microsoft tt-fonts available to X, and
> now kde3 is a little more readable.
> 
> 8) I may experiment with FreeBSD again one of these days, and I may
> return to the xfce environment, but I won't be experimenting with any
> other linux releases.  This one is solid gold!!!  If I ever get around
> to putting a scanner and a color printer on this system, I might even be
> able to convince the rest of the family to give it a whirl.
> 
> 9) It all works, baby.
> 
> Enjoy,
> -- 
> Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
> Gentoo_rc6-15(1.0) 2.4.19pre - kde3 + sylpheed + mozilla
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Collins

   I have a compac armada laptop coming with 32 meg mem. Will gentoo
run under this distro with xfce?

cheers

-- 
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at gte.net
Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1
Registered Linux User

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