[plug] Gentoo

[Dion]

excellent. Out of curiosity tho, how long did it take from your modem 
connection  for gentoo to produce  a useable machine??  

D.

William Kenworthy wrote:

>just a point - try not to delete the tarballs, save em off onto CD if
>space is a problem (I share an nfs mount between systems so only one set
>is needed).  Why? - one of the advantages of gentoo is that it is tuned
>to your hardware/profile: want to change to a higher/lower level of
>optimisation?, compile kde stuff into the appropriate applications?,
>then just change the profile and recompile, for which you will need the
>original tarball.  Same when gcc2.3 and gnome2 came out - a few commands
>and a recompile and I am again at the (b)leeding edge
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>Mind you, after a few months and 3 systems and vmware images, I have
>nearly 2g of tarballs - all via modem!!!
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