Hey, I actually have two questions.
One: I repacked distro.rar from the extracted ISO for Gentoox because I wanted a pre-setup rootfs. Should I use XISO to create my CDRW or should I just make a regular ISO. I'm using the X2 bios.
Two: I love Gentoox! Thanks ShaLLaX! Anyway... I was wondering if anyone here had experience with Gentoo, more specifically if it has all the packages for laptop compatibility. I want linux on my PC but I don't want to use redhat or mandrake because they are too dumbified and I won't learn anything.
I love GentooX. Is PC Gentoo just as good?
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I installed gentoo linux on a PC to see what it was like and it seems just like gentoox. But remember Gentoox is a distro so it comes with a software already installed like the KDE & XFCE graphical interface where as gentoo is just the OS so you will have to emerge everything yourself but its worth a go cos it will teach you a bit about whats happening in gentoox on the xbox..
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once you have installed gentoo linux onto your laptop you will have all you need to start installing software using the "emerge" command. go to http://www.gentoo.org/ and you can get all the instructions you need to install it.
I can totally recommend gentoo!
It is more involved distro though. Shallax has done a hell of a lot of work with the home edition of gentoox.
Perhaps have a try with gentoox pro, as it is more like gentoo, with some xbox tweaks.
gentoo.org has a great community, THE most helpful out there, IMHO.
So you shouldn't get stuck getting your machines up and running
cheers
It is more involved distro though. Shallax has done a hell of a lot of work with the home edition of gentoox.
Perhaps have a try with gentoox pro, as it is more like gentoo, with some xbox tweaks.
gentoo.org has a great community, THE most helpful out there, IMHO.
So you shouldn't get stuck getting your machines up and running
cheers
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1) Yes, you can get the Gentoo Reference Platform (GRP) install, that has pre-built packages. But isn't that against the point of gentoo?DracFlamloc wrote:Oh so gentoo doesn't come with any preinstalled stuff then?Do you know if emerge is a standard tool that comes with linux distros?
2) Nope. Emerge is only in Gentoo. Debian has apt-get, which d/ls a binary. But emerge is better.
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