On 2008-10-04, The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Gregory Shearman
><ZekeGregory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on 3 Oct 2008 23:32:18 GMT
><slrngedas2.91m.ZekeGregory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On 2008-10-03, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> ____/ Gregory Shearman on Friday 03 October 2008 13:38 : \____
>>>
>>>> On 2008-10-02, Jerry McBride <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Gentoo still rules
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Of all the Linux distros that I've tried... I ALWAYS go back to Gentoo.
>>>>> Nothing more pure...
>>>>
>>>> Another masochist...
>>>
>>> Ricer. :-)
>>
>> No way! Gentoo builds are lean and mean and tailored to their task.
>>
>> Ubuntu users are the "ricers".
>>
>
> Not entirely sure of that. I'll have to see if I can
> rebuild Gentoo by changing CHOST in /etc/make.conf;
> stage-1 starter kits are no longer supported, though
> there's gotta be a way to rebuild the base system with
> the options I want, especially with crosscompiling.
Hmmm... I had to change the CHOST on one of my large desktops. It was a
rather stressful and time-consuming exercise, fraught with danger. I
made a mistake and originally built the machine with a i386-pc-linux-gnu
CHOST instead of the i686-pc-linux-gnu CHOST. All seemed to go OK
though. This was a few years ago now and the machine is still running
fine.
> Ideally I'd be able to build a Gentoo ARM environment for
> an Android-like phone and run it using QEMU. Of course
> there's a number of issues in doing so (starting with
> a certain lack of hardware :-) ).
Sounds like a lot of fun. I intend to get into crosscompiling a bit
more, to save some of my lower powered gentoo penguins from the strain
of compiling their own software.
> There's also the issue that I consider Gentoo a
> manual-shift, if one uses (yet again some more) a car
> analogy; Ubuntu and other distros are automatic, and far
> faster to install, if everything goes right. The flip
> side: Gentoo is more likely to be consistent, if one
> maintains the system properly (revdep-rebuild is rather
> important :-) ).
Urk! I'm feeling queasy. Please, enough of the car analogy. I don't need
it.
Just ran revdep-rebuild on my oldest gentoo install (a 2003 Pentium
Behemoth)... there's been an update to it (both the behemoth and to the
revdep-rebuild tool) today and it found some old libraru links that
belong to no packages and placed this information conveniently in a flie
for me... isn't that nice? Looks like I've got a bit of housekeeping to
do.. never a dull moment.
> My Gentoo system is admittedly rather extensively tailored,
> though. I don't know if I could call it "customized" but
> I do have to tweak a fair number of things on occasion,
> probably because I like to experiment with newish things that
> the Gentoo powers-that-be haven't deemed stable yet.
Ah, geek heaven!
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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