Am Dienstag, 24. Juni 2003 09:52 schrieb Timo Boettcher: > Hi, > > I was asked to show Gentoo in my local LUG, to make a > Demo-Installation or something like this. > As the place where we meet has no Internet to speak of (64kbit > single ISDN) and the meetings are pretty short (3hours), it would be > hard to show a full gentoo Installation. Show upgrading a simple, small paket instead.
> So, what should I show them?
> The minimal solution for me would be to take a Laptop with Gentoo
> Installed, merge/unmerge some packages, fine. But IMO the most
> distinguishing part of Gentoo is its install.
> Lacking real compiling power (best we got is a dual P3-933), we
Err, if this machine is lacking compiling power, there must be something
really wrong with it ;-)
> could just precompile some things and build binary packages.
Yep, also good to show: "You can build binary packages for later reuse".
> What do you like best on Gentoo? What would you tell/show them?
USE Flags, Slots (install KDE2 and KDE3 on the same machine), init script's
dependencies, EVMS capable installation,...
HTH...
Dirk
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