Gentoo Linux

[Kevin Geiss]

I'm behind on my emails, or I would have replied sooner.

I love gentoo! U have it installed on my web server and my workstation at home and at work.

I just got an ibook and I'm in the midst of installing gentoo on it.

advantages: everything is compiled for your machin, rather than a
386, so it runs faster. plus most packages in gentoo are extremely up to date.

disadvantage: waiting for stuff to compile. this isn't that big of a deal once you get the initial install
going. check out the forums at gentoo.org too.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 07:21:51AM -0700, Bob Cober wrote:
> Anyone ever use the distro Gentoo Linux? http://www.gentoo.org/
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> "Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution for x86, PowerPC, Sparc and Sparc64 that's geared towards Linux power users. Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package management, "fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs, path sandboxing, safe unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more."
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> Seems they have a bootable CD with a demo of Unreal Tournament 2003:
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> Epic Games' much-anticipated Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo is now available on a self-booting Gentoo Linux-based LiveCD, allowing you to play the Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo using any modern PC with an NVIDIA GeForce 2 or greater graphics card and a CD-ROM drive. Full networking, OSS sound and Creative Soundblaster Live! and Audigy support included, allowing for the full gaming experience including LAN/Internet play, EAX environmental audio and of course 3D accelerated OpenGL graphics. The CD also serves as a fully-functional Gentoo Linux installation CD. You can download the CD using this link. 
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