On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 07:59:32AM -0500, Joel Rosenberg wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:11 pm, you wrote: > > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 06:44:12PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > > > How many people run Gentoo here? > > > > I do. (But you probably guessed that.) > > > > -Tim > > Could you talk a little about the whole installation? How long did it take > from start-of-installation to getting-real-work done? There's a lot that > seems attractive about it, and frankly, I'd love to play with it, but while I > might be able to spare a day or two -- which is about what it took for me to > get Mandrake back up-and-running after I made the mistake of trying to update > to KDE3 and broke things really badly. Well, I wouldn't suggest installing Gentoo if you really plan on getting work done. It's not all _that_ raw, but it's very, very distracting :) I use it because tinkering with it is fun. Though, I _am_ a sysadmin and I find that sort of thing amusing. I got a working system up in a few hours. If you don't waste your time building gigantic, bloated stuff like Gnome and/or KDE, it doesn't take too long at all. Of course, I spent the next several months playing with compiler optimizations and rebuilding my system repeatedly. -- Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu