Gentoo

[James McDonald]

Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

>Glad you like it!  Check out alt.os.linux.gentoo if you haven't already.
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>Alan Jackson wrote:
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>>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.
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Is the open office compile using an ebuild or is it in tar.gz format I 
have wanted to compile it for a while but keep getting trouble with 
it... (that was months ago though)

ditto re the taking time but 20 hrs for kde seems a long time is that 
including a slow download time aswell?


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James McDonald
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