Talking Gentoo?

[Jayson Smith]

Well actually, after reading the Gentoo installation instructions, I'm not
sure I'm ready for it yet.  I didn't exactly run away screaming as I pretty
much understand what's going on, but it is a bit time consuming to install
Gentoo.  With Gentoo, as I understand it, you do most of the configuration
work yourself whereas with, say, Debian 3, you just tell the menu system
what to do, and when you boot up for the first time you've got a nice base
system, ready to be configured.  It does all the hard work for you.
Also, why do you have to build a kernel to use Gentoo?  Why can't you just
use the one from the live cd?
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Deedra M. Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: Talking Gentoo?


> K, sorry if this message is a bit messed up etc, but i'm on ssh over
> dialup, and currently with no phone service, so using my parents line.:p
>
> John is right. the person who deals with the gentoo-dev-sources kernel
> tree is  in the moving process. I suspect that he will be back on monday
> if I have my facts straight.
>
> gentoo-sources and xfs-sources however have gentoo built into them.
>
> Sorry if I'm missing any other  messages in this topic, but this is the
> first message I've seen about it since my mail is in 5 different places
> currently..
>
>
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Jon Hood wrote:
>
> > Deedra's kinda on dialup right now, so it'll be a little while before
> > she comes and whips everyone. Gentoo-dev-sources still has the
> > cut-n-paste bug because the main kernel dev is in the process of moving
> > (this is the dev we have to go through). Gentoo does support speakup,
> > it's just little aspects of it are a bit buggy and those are _almost_
> > worked out. Uh oh, I just talked to Deedra. I better go before she beats
> > me again...
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 05:55, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> > > I'm sure Deedra will pipe when she sees this thread but I'll just
> > > steel her thunder until she gets here and say not only does Gentoo
> > > support speakup, I believe it is built-in to their standard
> > > distribution.  I'm sure she'll wax more eloquently.
> > >
> > >   Kirk
> >
> >
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