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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 5:19 am    Post subject: installation Reply with quote

sweet lord... am i to understand that theres NO installer for gentoo?? that i have to do 99% of the work myself?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gentoo's "installer" is the build guide at http://gentoo.org/doc/en/build.xml, assuming you're using x86 hardware. I found the instructions to be very clear, well-written and straightforward. I have heard talk of one or more anaconda-based installers that are in various stages of completion. Maybe this thread might be of interest to you, although it may not be current with 1.4rc1, and I haven't noticed anything from vprada on this subject in a while.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well... this looks like it could take hours.... lycoris takes 10 minutes flat

is there a reason i should change? are the speed tweaks that important and or effective?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

stubert wrote:
well... this looks like it could take hours.... lycoris takes 10 minutes flat

Definitely will take hours, even on fast hardware. You're compiling everything from source when using Gentoo.

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is there a reason i should change? are the speed tweaks that important and or effective?

I hope and expect that you will get lots of different opinions and reasons here. For me, the control of exactly what goes into my system and how it is compiled (with support for optional things like SSL and East Asian text handling that I want, and without support for things like KDE and gpm that I don't want) is more important than the performance increase, but the performance increase is certainly noticeable over Debian, which was the binary distribution that I switched to Gentoo from. I have never used Lycoris, so I can't comment directly on it.
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