Subj : Re: Linux On A Powerbook
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Wed Oct 27 2004 01:01 pm

dislexik enlightened us with:
> (You have two stages to install from, stage 1 == compiling
> everything from source, even your base system binaries such as GCC).

And stage 3 contains KDE, OpenOffice, etc. Yes, there are three
stages.

> Gentoo is easy to update using portage, and easy to keep track of the
> software you install, along with everything being optimised for your
> system, however noted compiling Gentoo from source took me 13.5 hours
> including Xorg, Qt,  KDE 3.3.0 and all the needed deps for these
> applications/Window systems and I have the specs as noted down in my
> sig.

The only downside I've seen on Gentoo is that compiling from source
takes a lot of time. It's the best distribution I've ever seen.

> If any assistance on installing Gentoo just e-mail me through my sig,
> or reply here.

Or visit alt.os.linux.gentoo.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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