Given that I’m in the process of doing a stage1 Gentoo install on the ol’ mini-ITX “Sparc Classic” (you know the one! ;)
Why you ask? Not because I want an uber-optimised VIA C3 workstation (ugh!). No. Simply because it’s pouring rain here, and I’m stuck inside, bored out of my skull.
Mind you, Gentoo is *still* my fave distro, but not for the reasons listed in the Rice article (which had me laughing very, very hard – comments such as those abound on the Gentoo forums). No, I like Gentoo because I’ve never forgiven Debian for the time a very unstable version of apt completely and utterly hosed my workstation. Bastards. (yeah yeah … I know… “unstable”. ;)
Of course, in an effort to educate the heathen Debian masses, I should point out that it *is* possible to install precompiled packages on a Gentoo box via Portage. Unfortunately, most of the Gentoo people don’t realize this. :)
omfg stfu nerd.
-j
Err, no. :)
But thanks anyhow.
Update: 2 days into the install. 68% complete. Haven’t eaten. Need groceries, but can’t pull self away from mesmerizing gcc compile messages. May have to resort to eating liners from old RedHat CDs.
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<Schwern vintage=1999>MORONS!</Schwern>
Also, still laughing.
thanks, that was beautiful ;)
Given that I’m in the process of doing a stage1 Gentoo install on the ol’ mini-ITX “Sparc Classic” (you know the one! ;)
Why you ask? Not because I want an uber-optimised VIA C3 workstation (ugh!). No. Simply because it’s pouring rain here, and I’m stuck inside, bored out of my skull.
Mind you, Gentoo is *still* my fave distro, but not for the reasons listed in the Rice article (which had me laughing very, very hard – comments such as those abound on the Gentoo forums). No, I like Gentoo because I’ve never forgiven Debian for the time a very unstable version of apt completely and utterly hosed my workstation. Bastards. (yeah yeah … I know… “unstable”. ;)
Of course, in an effort to educate the heathen Debian masses, I should point out that it *is* possible to install precompiled packages on a Gentoo box via Portage. Unfortunately, most of the Gentoo people don’t realize this. :)
omfg stfu nerd.
-j
Err, no. :)
But thanks anyhow.
Update: 2 days into the install. 68% complete. Haven’t eaten. Need groceries, but can’t pull self away from mesmerizing gcc compile messages. May have to resort to eating liners from old RedHat CDs.