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kureikain
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:31 pm    Post subject: Portage will kill your creaation! Reply with quote

We know Gentoo is a distro which is more complex than others!
We use Gentoo because we want to study more about linux, dig into deep and deeper!
In this post, i don't want to say much about power of Gentoo!
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Gentoo's heart is portage! Portage make sofware install processing become so easy!
So, we don't know about how that software was compile , its compile options,...
Because Portage was solve all of them for out => We don't need think, study,...
Instead of studing to compile PHP,Apache, Mysql , u emerge them!
if try to compile them, u realize that it must install Apache first, then install mysql then install php! If u install php first, u don't have mysql header files...)
But i u use portage, u will not know these things!

But if don't use portage, Gentoo is not Gentoo!
Is it hard to understand?
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Desintegr
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Use LFS :)
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
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Taladar
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2008 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, use LFS to figure that out, then use Gentoo when you get tired of doing virtually the same thing over and over again (installing apache 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3,...)
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rakeyry
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone here use LFS?
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cbeley
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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rakeyry wrote:
Anyone here use LFS?

I set up a a LFS server at my house years ago and it is still running today. I had i running (hosting a website and doing other misc. things) for two years straight (never powered off).

It really needs to be updated now though as I imagine there are probably some security vulnerabilities :S Though, they (actually, I have two personal severs, the other is running slackware) will be powered off and stored or thrown away (I got them both for free ^^) when I go to college this year anyway.

LFS certainly taught me a lot though ^^ Fun little two week project (majority of that time was compiling and having to start over once because I made a huge mistake somewhere...).
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