hi,
I definitely agree with Nikhil. There has been tremendous speed improvements with my PIII machine.Till now i have been using Redhat and Fedora. BUt gentoo has impressed me a lot as it allows me to upgrade and resolves dependencies while getting the flab out of the packages.I took approx 3-days of R&D to get it working (compiling and installing and doing r&d). That was becoz of my ignorance of config files. BUt finally it worked and I am impressed with the responsive ness of applications.and i am having 3.2.2KDe and 2.6 Gnome.
Cheers to GENTOO...
REgds, Pankaj
-----Original Message----- From: Nikhil Joshi nikhil_joshi@gmx.net To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:13:34 +0530 (IST) Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] KDE 3.3.0 Final Included with yoper 2 distro anybody tried yet
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Rohit Baisakhiya wrote:
Just downloaded and installed yoper V 2.0.Has anybody else tried yoper before.The only thing i liked very much about X/kde works very fast.Boots GUI mode very fast.
From the Yoper FAQ:
"Yoper fills the gap between the guru-only Gentoo or Linux from scratch OS's, and Linux distros used by businesses or home users, that still want the best possible desktop."
Well I use Gentoo and frankly I am not a Guru. Gentoo is IMHO the "best" source-based Linux distribution. It gives you the power of installing either binary packages or source based "portages". The major advantage is that you can install portages so that you have applications that are tailor-made for your CPU: Why install i386/i586/i686 rpm's when you have Pentium 4 or Athlon XP ?
Needless to say if you have a P4 or XP processor you get a speed/performance advantage.
Gentoo is closest that Linux gets to the supposedly venerable FreeBSD. Do tell us your experiences with Yoper...
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 00:10, Pankaj wrote:
Hello Luggers,
hi,
I definitely agree with Nikhil. There has been tremendous speed improvements with my PIII machine.Till now i have been using Redhat and Fedora. BUt gentoo has impressed me a lot as it allows me to upgrade and resolves dependencies while getting the flab out of the packages.I took approx 3-days of R&D to get it working (compiling and installing and doing r&d). That was becoz of my ignorance of config files. BUt finally it worked and I am impressed with the responsive ness of applications.and i am having 3.2.2KDe and 2.6 Gnome.
Cheers to GENTOO...
I too would like to try Gentoo,but is it so that gentoo need fast internet connection to be installed through net.Or is it installable through the 1st boot cd and the pentium4 packages cd.
Any gentoo gurus please guide.
REgds, Pankaj
-----Original Message----- From: Nikhil Joshi nikhil_joshi@gmx.net To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:13:34 +0530 (IST) Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] KDE 3.3.0 Final Included with yoper 2 distro anybody tried yet
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Rohit Baisakhiya wrote:
Just downloaded and installed yoper V 2.0.Has anybody else tried yoper before.The only thing i liked very much about X/kde works very fast.Boots GUI mode very fast.
From the Yoper FAQ:
"Yoper fills the gap between the guru-only Gentoo or Linux from scratch OS's, and Linux distros used by businesses or home users, that still want the best possible desktop."
Well I use Gentoo and frankly I am not a Guru. Gentoo is IMHO the "best" source-based Linux distribution. It gives you the power of installing either binary packages or source based "portages". The major advantage is that you can install portages so that you have applications that are tailor-made for your CPU: Why install i386/i586/i686 rpm's when you have Pentium 4 or Athlon XP ?
Needless to say if you have a P4 or XP processor you get a speed/performance advantage.
Gentoo is closest that Linux gets to the supposedly venerable FreeBSD. Do tell us your experiences with Yoper...
-- The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life. -- Calvin
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