ot: gentoo

[Alex Snow]

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I also thought gentoo was a pretty good distro but I didn't keep it 
around very long...it needs fast hardware which I don't have. I built 
it on a p2/233 with 80mb ram and it took like an entire day to 
install.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:54:04AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> 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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from that! Har har har!"
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