Gentoo

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I have just recently switched to Gentoo Linux. It took me quite a while to install everything and put all things in order but I finally got to use it right now. It seems faster and more reliable than Ubuntu.

Does anybody use it now? If so any recomms?

Thanks.

[yuyi]

I have just recently switched to Gentoo Linux. It took me quite a while to install everything and put all things in order but I finally got to use it right now. It seems faster and more reliable than Ubuntu.

Does anybody use it now? If so any recomms?

Thanks.

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I'm not using Ubuntu or gentoo, but I'm curious about the reasons which made you want to change away from Ubuntu? And then why Gentoo, and not Mepis, Fedora, Mandriva, Linspire, SuSE etc.?

Do you run Gentoo on the HP notebook you offered for sale? If yes, how is the touchpad and powersave support after installing "out of the box"?

[francois]

hi'

got a friend using Gentoo and crasy about ...

for my own, I would have try Mandriva (very easy) or Suse(the best of them all)

francois

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Yuyi, no I don't run Linux on my laptop although I already sold it.

Gentoo is been working fine with me.

No disappointments.

[KuBand]

I have just recently switched to Gentoo Linux. It took me quite a while to install everything and put all things in order but I finally got to use it right now. It seems faster and more reliable than Ubuntu.

Does anybody use it now? If so any recomms?

Thanks.

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Yep Gentoo does take a few minutes (read a few days) to get right but by far the best flavour of *Nix I have ever seen, and so stable. Infact just the bees'knees.

I have it running on a P4 2.4ghz Dell box, and runs the house, the office, the media centers [satellite and normal tv] , news, email etc like it is idling..

Need to add an application - just emerge it and it is done.

Samba works so well across all platforms (no crashes) here, mac, wintel, solaris.

Infact about to turn the sun boxes into Gentoo as it is so much easier to use than even Solaris 10.

Get the torrent and dload the set up iso, or dload it via broadband and give it a try, but seriously it is not for the faint hearted (the set up that is).

Cheers