Gentoo

[Alan Jackson]

Well I got the Gentoo CD and did the install over Labor Day. Amazingly
smooth. The bootable CD detected all my hardware, found my ISP, just
perfect. Better and easier than my Caldera 3.1.1 install. Really.
But oh my God it was slow! I recompiled KDE and that took 20 hours
on a 1 Ghz AMD machine. Open office took about 12 hours. But everything
else is going pretty quick. I realized that I never like to use rpm's
anyway - I always compile code by choice, so this fits my style quite
nicely. I'm still getting set up, but it's *real close now*. Got my
e-mail working (I have a rat's nest of filters), and I'm working on
turboprint right now. Already did pysol - gotta get the essentials first.

Anyway, I give it a big thumbs up!

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