Is gentoo another distro?
February 22, 2006 03:18 PM
Is gentoo another distro? Or is it based on RedHat or Debian too?
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February 22, 2006 03:38 PM
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I rate it quite highly, though there could be a few problems during initial installation if you can't get it to recognize your network card / dsl correctly, even with the LiveCD. Basically, if its a Realtek chip it should be fine.
I rate it quite highly, though there could be a few problems during initial installation if you can't get it to recognize your network card / dsl correctly, even with the LiveCD. Basically, if its a Realtek chip it should be fine.
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February 22, 2006 04:17 PM
Yes, gentoo is separate. It's not based on another distro. The main difference between gentoo (deratives) and the rest is that you compile gentoo from source on your machine instead of just installing generic binaries. This means two things:
1) gentoo is fast because it's optimized for your machine.
2) it takes a helluva lot of time to compile/install. Hours if not days (for a full desktop)
for a package manager it uses portage, which is more like the BSD ports system than like any of the other binary package managers around.
1) gentoo is fast because it's optimized for your machine.
2) it takes a helluva lot of time to compile/install. Hours if not days (for a full desktop)
for a package manager it uses portage, which is more like the BSD ports system than like any of the other binary package managers around.
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February 23, 2006 02:48 PM
Gentoo is great. Portage is really slick.
As an example, if you want emacs installed on your system:
emerge emacs
This downloads the source code for emacs and compiles it specifically for your system.
If you want vi you type:
emerge vi
It is really easy(AFTER YOU GET IT INSTALLED). The ultimate developers box where everything is compiled by you for you.
Plus the forum community is very active and helpful.
Happy coding
As an example, if you want emacs installed on your system:
emerge emacs
This downloads the source code for emacs and compiles it specifically for your system.
If you want vi you type:
emerge vi
It is really easy(AFTER YOU GET IT INSTALLED). The ultimate developers box where everything is compiled by you for you.
Plus the forum community is very active and helpful.
Happy coding
February 23, 2006 02:51 PM
Optimizing for your system is kind of a "meh, whatever" thing. There are two really useful things about compiling from scratch:
1) You can customize what features are included or not in a build. Taking out or putting in things like JPEG or PNG support, not including Qt for some app, etc.
2) There's simply no such thing as missing dependencies or conflicts or whatever. When i was using RH9, I had a miserable time trying to find apps that were compiled against the right version of glibc. With Gentoo, it's always compiled against whatever version you have, so there's no problems.
1) You can customize what features are included or not in a build. Taking out or putting in things like JPEG or PNG support, not including Qt for some app, etc.
2) There's simply no such thing as missing dependencies or conflicts or whatever. When i was using RH9, I had a miserable time trying to find apps that were compiled against the right version of glibc. With Gentoo, it's always compiled against whatever version you have, so there's no problems.
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February 24, 2006 12:29 PM
That's good to hear... However... When I try to insert the CD and boot from it... I only get the Gentoo screnn...When I press CTRL + ???? I can't remember the key... It goes into command line...
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February 24, 2006 06:45 PM
Quote: Original post by armond
That's good to hear... However... When I try to insert the CD and boot from it... I only get the Gentoo screnn...When I press CTRL + ???? I can't remember the key... It goes into command line...
Yeah; there's no installer, you have to follow the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml and install by typing commands in the command line.
That's what people meant when they said the installation can be a bit tough. As long as you can follow their instructions and make changes when you need to decide for yourself what partition to use etc., you'll be fine.
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February 28, 2006 01:12 PM
Gentoo 2006.0 just came out and has a graphical installer. Check out some screenshots. Haven't tried the new installer yet, though...
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February 28, 2006 03:46 PM
If you cannot handle installing manually from the command line then you should not be using gentoo yet. Gentoo is primarily for those who want to try out the latest software or build some radically customized setups. It is a rather poor choice for a stable server or a productive desktop.
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