Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-07 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate. Ok, so I've made up my mind and want to migrate to Gentoo... should I wait until 1.4 final or does the portage system make irrevelevant the distribution you start with? Is there an expeceted release date for 1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-07 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:38:26 -0500 brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of the great portage system releases have no meaning for Gentoo except for the CDs. Install 1.4rc3 and then keep up with emerge synch emerge -u system emerge -u world You might want to do -up for each

[gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi, I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo distribution and thought I'd give it a try. I'm a freelance Java

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Larsson
On ons, 2003-03-05 at 15:42, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi, I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread nealbirch
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi, I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot afford having one of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Louis C. Candell
Alec Berryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bochs is another alternative, but I've heard it is incredibly slow. Painfully slow. Heh. would be worth grabbing a free 30-day VMWare trial, or go the similarly speedy route of the UML tutorial. Yah, that UML tutorial does kick some major a**!

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server (CVS, Apache, JBoss, OC4J, SAPDb, etc) and another one that I use as development workstation (Gnome, Netbeans, and the usual stuff like