ot: gentoo

[Kenny Hitt]

I'm currently running Gentoo.  I chose it for the same reasons you
mention.  My network card isn't supported by any accessible Debian
installer.
It takes a while to install.  I spent the afternoon reading the Gentoo
handbook with lynx in one console and following it's instructions in
another.  When the handbook tells you to type a comman and go watch a
movie or read a book, they aren't kidding.  I installed it on a 1.5G AMD
with 512 meg ram.  It still takes it a while to upgrade things like
Mozilla.  I like the fact I could install my DECtalk software and Sun's
JDK early in the install.  This meant I had DECtalk available for
Gnopernicus the first time.  Gentoo has an accessibility flag that
causes programs built to enable any accessibility features.  I still
like Debian better, but my Gentoo box works fine as my personal work
station.  If you want to use a Gentoo kernel source instead of official
kernel.org sources, gentoo-dev-sources has speakup already patched in
the source.  Speechd-up is a Gentoo package, so getting speakup working
with software speech wasn't difficult.

Hope this helps.

          Kenny
	  
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Is anybody on this list currently running gentoo? I want to re-install on 
> my desktop because I no longer really need my DOS partition (well, I still 
> have a little problem with transfers to and from the braillelite but I 
> plan to solve that). My preference would probably be to re-install debian, 
> but having to either use an older installer cd or having to mess with 
> floppies which don't always seem to work for me don't seem like really 
> wonderful alternatives. besides this, unless one runs unstable (which is 
> what I usually do), things aren't current. so gentoo sounds kind of 
> appealing to me. but I'd like to know: if anybody has either run it 
> recently or is running it, did you have issues with installation and what 
> were your impressions of it once you got it installed? I have looked at 
> some of the archive issues (I think there were some here and in blinux) 
> with this but would like any current opinions. I know that people's likes 
> and dislikes re: distributions are often a fairly subjective matter, so 
> not trying to start a dist war, but just am trying to decide whether I 
> want to try this. A while back I tried fedora on my laptop and really 
> didn't find it to be what i wanted, but that doesn't mean I'm never going 
> to try anything different again.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
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