owned by gentoo

wyrd · Post by **wyrd** » July 14th, 2005, 16:13

i've spent the last few days trying to do a stage 1 onwards gentoo install

to no avail, keeps falling over on bootstrapping

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 14th, 2005, 16:16

I have the entire manual printed out here.

it still hates all my motherboards.

wyrd · Post by **wyrd** » July 14th, 2005, 16:26

yeah, i was following the handbook

not happy

shall keep trying though

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 14th, 2005, 16:29

i gave up eventually.

logic being, gentoo takes 3-4 days to install, and works pretty well.

windows takes 25 minutes and it works just as well.

wyrd · Post by **wyrd** » July 14th, 2005, 16:39

but it's not anything like as leet...

i'm prolly going to put ubuntu back on my second HDD

Jinxx · Post by **Jinxx** » July 14th, 2005, 16:44

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:logic being, gentoo takes 3-4 days to install, and works pretty well.

If you need a little box to sit there and encode/decode or work out the human genome, then gentoo is a sturdy little OS that's entirely customised for your platform, thus it's fucking quick. But as a desktop OS, it's rubbish because of all the fuss and bother you've got to go through to compile every* damn application you want to install.

*you can use binaries, but then you eliminate the point of using Gentoo, and might as well use Debian.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 14th, 2005, 16:47

problem with gentoo is that you have to compile the genome first, then compile scientists to work it out.

Jinxx · Post by **Jinxx** » July 14th, 2005, 16:54

it takes long enough to compile gnome, sticking an extra vowel in certainly can't help matters

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » July 14th, 2005, 18:49

linux =

[JUST] Useless · Post by **[JUST] Useless** » July 14th, 2005, 20:53

Hey I've just installed Linux, but I didn't get that manual

wyrd · Post by **wyrd** » July 15th, 2005, 12:56

got a stage 3 install going :D

gnome won't compile now, i'll just get the binary me thinks, hell, i should have stuck with ubuntu