On Monday 31 January 2005 17:16, Maciej Hanski wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:18:19 +0100 > > Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote: > > Just going to have to stick my 2 cents in for Gentoo, even though it > > might not be your stuff or you might not have the wish to compile stuff > > often. However, I turned on the old Duron 900 here which hasnt been on > > since late September. It spent quite awhile updating, over 170 packages > > including all of Gnome and KDE (over 600mb of source tarballs) and I had > > NO issues with upgrades.. > > > > process: Turn on, login in, emerge sync, emerge -uaDv world, etc-update > > and update any config files and it was done. Life in a perfect world.. > > ahh :) > > Ok, thank you, I'm sitting right now in front of my brand new Gentoo > desktop, compiling Scribus 1.2.2cvs and wondering, how easy it was to get > everything I need up and running. Setting up my network, firewall, X with > Nvidia, sound with Alsa and Skype, etc, etc, everything went smoothly and > without any quirks... > > In particular, I was struck by the quality of the Gentoo documentation, > both the official and the unofficial. Speaking of the latter, the GNU > FDL'd, multilingual and maintained by Gentoo users Gentoo-Portage Wiki > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page is a unique treasury of knowledge -- I > wonder, I we could have something like that for the Scribus community. To > start with, we could use some of the most interesting mails from this list > for the initial "Tips & Tricks" and "Howtos" -- there have been quite a few > interesting exchange of views here that could be easily transform into > suitable docs.
BTW, nice to hear your Gentoo desktop install has gone smoothly. Always has here. emerge on! :) Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050131/34a231a9/attachment.pgp
