ot: gentoo

ot: gentoo

[Cheryl Homiak]

Is anybody on this list currently running gentoo? I want to re-install on 
my desktop because I no longer really need my DOS partition (well, I still 
have a little problem with transfers to and from the braillelite but I 
plan to solve that). My preference would probably be to re-install debian, 
but having to either use an older installer cd or having to mess with 
floppies which don't always seem to work for me don't seem like really 
wonderful alternatives. besides this, unless one runs unstable (which is 
what I usually do), things aren't current. so gentoo sounds kind of 
appealing to me. but I'd like to know: if anybody has either run it 
recently or is running it, did you have issues with installation and what 
were your impressions of it once you got it installed? I have looked at 
some of the archive issues (I think there were some here and in blinux) 
with this but would like any current opinions. I know that people's likes 
and dislikes re: distributions are often a fairly subjective matter, so 
not trying to start a dist war, but just am trying to decide whether I 
want to try this. A while back I tried fedora on my laptop and really 
didn't find it to be what i wanted, but that doesn't mean I'm never going 
to try anything different again.
Thanks.



-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Re: ot: gentoo

[Kenny Hitt]

I'm currently running Gentoo.  I chose it for the same reasons you
mention.  My network card isn't supported by any accessible Debian
installer.
It takes a while to install.  I spent the afternoon reading the Gentoo
handbook with lynx in one console and following it's instructions in
another.  When the handbook tells you to type a comman and go watch a
movie or read a book, they aren't kidding.  I installed it on a 1.5G AMD
with 512 meg ram.  It still takes it a while to upgrade things like
Mozilla.  I like the fact I could install my DECtalk software and Sun's
JDK early in the install.  This meant I had DECtalk available for
Gnopernicus the first time.  Gentoo has an accessibility flag that
causes programs built to enable any accessibility features.  I still
like Debian better, but my Gentoo box works fine as my personal work
station.  If you want to use a Gentoo kernel source instead of official
kernel.org sources, gentoo-dev-sources has speakup already patched in
the source.  Speechd-up is a Gentoo package, so getting speakup working
with software speech wasn't difficult.

Hope this helps.

          Kenny
	  
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Is anybody on this list currently running gentoo? I want to re-install on 
> my desktop because I no longer really need my DOS partition (well, I still 
> have a little problem with transfers to and from the braillelite but I 
> plan to solve that). My preference would probably be to re-install debian, 
> but having to either use an older installer cd or having to mess with 
> floppies which don't always seem to work for me don't seem like really 
> wonderful alternatives. besides this, unless one runs unstable (which is 
> what I usually do), things aren't current. so gentoo sounds kind of 
> appealing to me. but I'd like to know: if anybody has either run it 
> recently or is running it, did you have issues with installation and what 
> were your impressions of it once you got it installed? I have looked at 
> some of the archive issues (I think there were some here and in blinux) 
> with this but would like any current opinions. I know that people's likes 
> and dislikes re: distributions are often a fairly subjective matter, so 
> not trying to start a dist war, but just am trying to decide whether I 
> want to try this. A while back I tried fedora on my laptop and really 
> didn't find it to be what i wanted, but that doesn't mean I'm never going 
> to try anything different again.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: ot: gentoo

[Alex Snow]

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I also thought gentoo was a pretty good distro but I didn't keep it 
around very long...it needs fast hardware which I don't have. I built 
it on a p2/233 with 80mb ram and it took like an entire day to 
install.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:54:04AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> I'm currently running Gentoo.  I chose it for the same reasons you
> mention.  My network card isn't supported by any accessible Debian
> installer.
> It takes a while to install.  I spent the afternoon reading the Gentoo
> handbook with lynx in one console and following it's instructions in
> another.  When the handbook tells you to type a comman and go watch a
> movie or read a book, they aren't kidding.  I installed it on a 1.5G AMD
> with 512 meg ram.  It still takes it a while to upgrade things like
> Mozilla.  I like the fact I could install my DECtalk software and Sun's
> JDK early in the install.  This meant I had DECtalk available for
> Gnopernicus the first time.  Gentoo has an accessibility flag that
> causes programs built to enable any accessibility features.  I still
> like Debian better, but my Gentoo box works fine as my personal work
> station.  If you want to use a Gentoo kernel source instead of official
> kernel.org sources, gentoo-dev-sources has speakup already patched in
> the source.  Speechd-up is a Gentoo package, so getting speakup working
> with software speech wasn't difficult.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
>           Kenny
> 	  
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > Is anybody on this list currently running gentoo? I want to re-install on 
> > my desktop because I no longer really need my DOS partition (well, I still 
> > have a little problem with transfers to and from the braillelite but I 
> > plan to solve that). My preference would probably be to re-install debian, 
> > but having to either use an older installer cd or having to mess with 
> > floppies which don't always seem to work for me don't seem like really 
> > wonderful alternatives. besides this, unless one runs unstable (which is 
> > what I usually do), things aren't current. so gentoo sounds kind of 
> > appealing to me. but I'd like to know: if anybody has either run it 
> > recently or is running it, did you have issues with installation and what 
> > were your impressions of it once you got it installed? I have looked at 
> > some of the archive issues (I think there were some here and in blinux) 
> > with this but would like any current opinions. I know that people's likes 
> > and dislikes re: distributions are often a fairly subjective matter, so 
> > not trying to start a dist war, but just am trying to decide whether I 
> > want to try this. A while back I tried fedora on my laptop and really 
> > didn't find it to be what i wanted, but that doesn't mean I'm never going 
> > to try anything different again.
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheryl
> > 
> > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Now I know someone out there is going to claim, "Well then, UNIX is intuitive,
because you only need to learn 5000 commands, and then everything else follows
from that! Har har har!"
	-- Andy Bates on "intuitive interfaces", slightly defending Macs
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