Hi,
Well, I've tried installing Gentoo on an AMD 64 with a RAID setup, but have run into enough troubles configuring my raid with MKRAID to make me use a Fedora core 2 instead, which also supports AMD64; though I plan to go back to Gentoo once I get a hang of using Linux. My PC does some serious number crunching, and I think Gentoo is the way to go for me. But their manuals and their IRC channels are really helpful..just didn't have the patience then to make it work.
Cheers, Mohan
"To see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory' - A.N.Whitehead
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Chetan S wrote:
Recently installed gentoo and it seems to be really great. Is anyone using gentoo on this list ? Are there any caveats to consider while using it ?
yeps. a gentoo fan right here. no probs yet. absolutely none. check their forums, superb and hyperactive.
Watch those optimiser flags and make sure your USE variables are good.
true. just so that you would know Os gives really small binaries but they run a bit slow. and O2 gives O3 a good run for its money. Anything beyond is bull. I don't remember ( u install gentoo only once :)) ) but there's some script that suggests a sensible selection of opt flags.
I read somewhere on the net that #emerge --update system sometimes screws the system and makes it unusable.
yeps. can make if u have ~x86(masked packages) installed . for most purposes it doesn't frag ur system. But hey its much easier to pick the packages u want updated. Else its whole load of whatnot that gets compiled / installed.
looking forward to gentoo gripes, C