On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Bob Cober wrote:

> Thanks for the comments...
> 
> I've been an avid RedHatter for some time - I'm even a RHCE(stop your laughing now hehe ;-)),  but Gentoo looks really great.  Portage sounds good too...
> 
> So Gentoo - Here I come!!!
> 
> Any recommendations for which "stage tarball" to use?  Fro the site:
> 
> "The stage1 tarball is used when you want to bootstrap and build the entire system from scratch. The stage2 tarball is used for building the entire system from a bootstrapped "semi-compiled" state. The stage3 tarball already contains a basic Gentoo Linux system that has been built for you..."
> 
> Stage1?

It depends on how much time you want to spend and how customized you want 
your system.  I rebuild my box at home recently going from a stage 1.  I 
started on a Fri. night and wasnt done until Sun. afternoon.  It was a 
fully working gnome box by that time, though (minus some non-gnome 
packaged apps). This was an Athlon XP with 776M ram and 100G of disk 
space.  However, I have only what I want on the system (no qt or kde 
stuff, no tcl/tk anywhere, etc).  I also rebuild my server, that too 1/4 
the time, though (no Xfree86, gui enviroment, etc).  


David


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