On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:07:27 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Rolling Distributions (or how I came to love Gentoo)
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>> | After wiping my drive I started the installation which went very |
>> smoothly. For the first day I spent a lot of time reading about portage
>> | and learning my way around Gentoo. After the first week I was more
>> than | comfortable with it. The most exciting part of it for me was
>> being able | to keep my system update to date and built the way I want
>> with little | effort. Packages built for traditional distributions are
>> precompiled and | built against libraries and feature the developers of
>> the distro have | chosen. So say for example ?Distro A? builds ?Package
>> A? with features | that rely on ?Library C? and you want to use it
>> without those features | then you?re out of luck as far as packages go.
>> Gentoo allows me to | decide how my packages get compiled. From
>> compiler optimizations to | enabled features I stay in control of
>> everything. `----
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>> http://www.mikanotoko.org/blog/?p=22
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>> Making Gentoo Even Harder: 64-bit Hardened Gentoo
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>> | Now that you have a spiffy new Hardened Gentoo AMD64 laptop, its time
>> to | show
>> | off to your friend. I suggest app-admin/paxtest in 'blackhat' mode,
>> or | this script from the trapkit blog (which requires
>> dev-libs/elfutils). `----
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> http://kutulumike.blogspot.com/2009/08/making-gentoo-even-harder-64-
bit.html
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>> Recent:
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>> Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04
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>> | Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has
>> been | committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to
>> users that | need more flexibility than binary packages can give them.
>> With a vibrant | community and over 300 developers, much has been
>> accomplished since the | beginning, Gentoo remains true to its origin.
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/news/20090722-anniversary.xml4
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> Gentoo... not for everyone, but PERFECT for me. It's been the best linux
> solution for everything I do. The only thing that comes close is LFS.
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> Cheers all...
I've been quite pleased with Gentoo on my mini-itx, too. With an
underpowered VIA C3 @ 1ghz, it really benefits from the customized build
process. As you say, not for everyone, but the perfect solution here, too.
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