Anthony Youngman wrote:
I'm trying to get a working Gentoo at home. That's a game and a half :-)
When I succeed I'll likely try and create an ebuild to install UVPE. Be
nice to get that officially into portage :-)
(I want to get a WordPerfect 8 ebuild working, too :-)
Cheers,
Wol
I recently (within the past month) wiped my gentoo desktop box so I
could try (K)ubuntu. (K)ubuntu seems to be a decent enough distribution,
but for the life of me I still don't understand its popularity. Their
policy on root accounts alone was enough to put me off. The primary
reason I prefer Linux to any MS solution is that Linux, for the most
part, doesn't make judgement calls about what I want to do with MY
computer. (K)ubuntu threw that right out the window with their sudo
nonsense.
It was a bad decision. I had my reasons for replacing gentoo, among them
the lack of a recent install CD. However I just checked www.gentoo.org,
and imagine my surprise... there's a 2007.0 install finally available. I
guess I'll spend the weekend reinstalling. Yes, you read that correctly:
the weekend.
I've been a Linux user since 1994 (I still have an ancient Yggdrasil
distribution, boot floppy and all). I've tried most of the major
players, and landed on gentoo about three years ago. What sold me was
the amount of control you have with gentoo. Want to try a bleeding edge
app? Preface 'emerge' with 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"' (replace ~x86 with
your platform of choice). 'USE' keywords offer very fine granularity
over what libraries get used when you install a package.
And the gentoo wiki offers some of the best documentation I've seen for
ANY computer platform.
My email archives fail me right now, and my middle-aged memory has been
all but useless for quite some time now (I blame the '70's, but there ya
go). Someone in the openqm community had an ebuild going for gentoo.
In short (is it too late for that?), good luck with building your gentoo
system. If ya got any questions (WordPerfect 8??) feel free to holler at me.
--
Dave Walker
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