...what now?

grooveharder · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 44

hey everybody,

i use gentoo for everyday purposes, but i also like having fun with it; it's a bit of a hobby for me. i'm running ~x86, and like it, and i'm running quite a few bleeding-edge things, and running a stripped down and customized kernel. question is.... what now? i've tried ~amd64 (i'm on a pentium D), it seems like more effort than it's worth, and it doesn't like some of my hardware.

any ideas?

"rm -rf /" to 'clean up' my system is not a valid suggestion

thanks!

Mantaar · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 219

I'm not exactly sure what you're up to.

If you just wanna wreck your system, try baselayout2 or einit or initng. You can also start to randomly compile overlayed ebuilds and cvs versions of stuff. Just be sure to file bug reports whenever you hit a problem nobody has seen before ;-)

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baeksu · l33t Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 609 Location: Seoul, Korea

I would suggest you make a second partition and build gentoo in chroot there with gcc-4.3.0.

That way you'll still have a bootable OS, and you'll also be able to play with unstable gcc and glibc, mm-patched kernels, and what nots.

Just remember to _not_ file bugs in bugs.gentoo.org, or the devs will be seriously p*ssed.
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SiberianSniper · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject:

Or even better, try building a system with icc instead of gcc?

Mantaar · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 219

... I heard the BSD-compiler just recently compiled itself...
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d2_racing · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:09 am Post subject:

Maybe you could try the Gentoo/BSD.

Urban Cowboy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 64

djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 810

comeon BSD is not that hard...
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Urban Cowboy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 64

No, it's not that BSD is that hard. But from what I understand, gentoo/BSD it like gentoo, but with a BSD kernel. But it's like getting a gas truck to run on diesel. I'm probably not smart enough to get it to work.
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Urban Cowboy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 64

I'll probably make an attempt sometime in the future.. just not on something I need running with any urgency.

Thanks for the information, though. It certainly is something I'm have quite a bit of interest in.
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LavaJoe · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:35 am Post subject:

lightvhawk0 · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 388

Well I'd say find the most interesting and fascinating thing about software and computers and research it and try it out. Read up on things until something really catches your eye and just go for it. Thats what I like to do and one of the reasons I use gentoo is for some reason with all the choices I have I spend a lot of time researching reasons to go one route or the other and I'm always learning about how things work, why the work the way they do, and other ways of getting things accomplished. Learning is awesome!
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d2_racing · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:20 am Post subject:

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d2_racing · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

Yeah, but I considere Gentoo a distribution, but LFS, is like if we can construt a new distro each time that we do a LFS.

Gentoo is a friendly LFS