[ltp] Gentoo

[Buchan Milne]

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dan babb wrote:

> Has anyone successfully installed gentoo on a T-20 and if so what did
> you do to make it work properly? I'm not all that linux savvy, and I
> like some of the features that Gentoo has to offer (i.e. Emerge). I have
> 2 options here. I can continue into week 3 of fighting with Gentoo or
> alternatively does anyone have an idea of some sort of software I could
> use with Redhat that could do something similar to emerge like go out to
> mirrors I define and grab dependancies for packages and tarballs that I
> download and start compiling?

Gentoo has two advantages over Redhat (we're talking defaults):

1)Optimisation
2)Package management

Mandrake has about the same optimisations that you would be willing to
use on a Gentoo box (the rest make very little difference), and has
urpmi for managing packages (no reason to compile dependencies when
urpmi will just install them for you instead ...).

Of course, there is also Debian, and a few other distros that have sane
package management.

I would suggest you try Mandrake 9.2RC2 (and update to cooker for now),
or wait about a week or two for 9.2 final. 9.2 has most of the
Thinkpad-related stuff packaged anyway, and some Thinkpad users have had
good success with the ACPI in 2.4.22-10mdk (my 600X doesn't like acpi ...).

Of course, if you just want to be l337, and be happy that you *must* be
more efficient since you spent a solid week compiling packages, then
there is no choice, you have to run a source-based distro. My machine
spends enough time compiling as it is to not want to give it more load
... I want to use it myself!

Regards,
Buchan

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