Gentoo Questions

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I've about decided to try Gentoo.  I built my new system (dual Athlon 1.9s, 
SCSI RAID) and in addition to RH 7.3 I left three spare partitions for 
trying other distros.  Gentoo appears to be a good approach and I don't 
have the new system at the point where there is anything critical on it.

I built KDE 2.2.1 on WS 3.1 but that actually worked so I quit while I was 
ahead <G>.

As soon as I finish up some things I have to do I'll give it a try.




> Brett, I think the best bet in your case is to free up some extra disk
> space and try Gentoo on a spare partition. I still boot mine from grub
> on my eWS3.11 partition. Once you are through the pain of the initial
> installation, I'm sure you will be pleased. Have you ever tried to build
> Evolution on a Caldera KDE system? RPM/dependency hell is what I call
> it. On my KDE based Gentoo system I just ran "emerge Evolution" at bed
> time & the next morning Evolution and all it's dependencies were built
> and ready to run. Made a believer out of me!
> 
> Tom Jandl

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