Gentoo

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Glad you like it!  Check out alt.os.linux.gentoo if you haven't already.


Alan Jackson wrote:

> 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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