Oh I see, I must have been thinking of RockLinux. Sounds good, except that I do not have the servers to distribute it from and I do have not used Gentoo.
----------------------------------------> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:19:07 -0500> From: gentooman at gmail.com> To: general at brlug.net> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] new Distro>> Patrick,> Your do not distribute a Gentoo system. You are simply using the distribution> to build your own distribution. You could use anything else really> but Gentoo is designed for this purpose.>> You compile the entire system with the options of your choosing such as> target architecture or kde support, just like Debian does. Then you distribute> the binary packages. It will proabably install much faster than just about> any distro that compiles more generic options options since the tarballs will be> smaller without doubt; the optional code such as gnome and kde support simply> does not exist. An it should not if nobody is ever going to use gnome or kde in> such a system.>> You will need a server to distribute the packages and hopefully,> the whole world will want the distribution so a hell of a lot of> bandwith will be a must.>> I once recompiled the OS of an Unix based appliance. The installation process> used to take about 25-30 minutes. It is now down to 12-15 minutes. This> was not done with Gentoo but rather FreeBSD ports system but the concept> is exactly the same.>> I hope that clarifies my earlier statement.>> take care,>> Alvaro Zuniga>> Patrick P wrote:>>>> We ll we did not want to go with a system that required everything to be compiled during installation as that would take waay to long to suit the average user on an older system. Debian will boot on a 486 and our system as it is put together now uses 55Mb of RAM until you start opening packages. It hass been considered to compile the packages for each processor, but we are not doing that in the beginning due to time and bandwidth constraints. Debian does not provide architecture specific compilation so we would need our own system of ftp mirrors for everyone to install the operating system. At the moment everything is installed from the Debian mirror system. The functionality we are trying to provide is that of a workststin, along with some multimedia apps for those who want them.>> _________________________________________________________________>> Explore the seven wonders of the world>> http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE>> _______________________________________________>> General mailing list>> General at brlug.net>> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net>> _______________________________________________> General mailing list> General at brlug.net> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE
