[wellylug] Distro Changing...

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 18:19, Vincent Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:34:39 +1300, Jethro Carr 
> <dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > Redhat linux has had too many bugs for me, and the new fedora, has far
> > too many. I want to change distro, to something stable and fast.
> >
> > I was thinking Gentoo, as it allows you to compile the software for your
> > pc, which should make everything run fast, like a LFS system.
> >
> > Has anyone tried/got the latest gentoo?
> >
> 
> Hi
> 
>   I have just got Gentoo 1.4 installed on a 500 Mhz AMD system.
> 
> First impressions so far is all good.
> 
> I built this install from the very beginning, you can get precompiled 
> stages 1 - 3, it depends how much customisation you want to do.

Does it boot faster than with a distro like redhat?


> emerge is brilliant, so easy to add packages, dependancies all sorted out 
> for you.

Can you use emerge to give you a list of files, that you can download
later? (eg: I don't like downloading lots of files on a 56k line without
a manager....)

> 
> Documantation at the Gentoo website easy to follow.
> 
> If you have been around Linux for a while you should have no problems 
> getting it going, it isn't for newbies though.
After LFS, It's going to be pleasant to install... ;)


thanks,


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