Does anyone know?
RWB
Icrontian
Of a Linux Distro that COMPILES onto your system from the internet? I heard of it, but I can't find it.
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Gentoo has "experimental" support for AMD64 they claim, but what they tell me to do is giberish at best.
This is true... but if I can get it to work. Then I will be happy I invested the time. Even though I have a Director Project in need of work.
I suppose Compiling takes a good long while, even on a system like mine? So I figure I could just leave my system COMPILING at home, meanwhile just be at school in an Open Lab to do my school work ehh?
Gentoo is nice if you want a super-lean system with everything you need and nothing you don't. Frankly, the benefits to me aren't worth the time invested. I use Slackware for my web box and it runs quite lean. The package system for Slack is easy to use and upgrading packages is also a snap. Slack has been out for a long time so it's quite mature. It's also probably the most Unix-like Linux, mostly with the way it uses config files.
Slackware is uber simple once you get past the true simplicity of how the installer is built, and that it is not a good GUI.
But this will actually wait till next weekend, perhaps, or some other time. I just found some new **** I wanna try out in Director. I have a game to program, and I have some great ideas for it. I may even have you guys Alpha test it for me
I'll post more on the game later when I get my ideas straightened out. So far I want it to be an RPG, in a 2D world... and hopeffully end up learning enough about the databasing to create a kind of Mutiplayer version.
Maybe even find a way to get it to run on Linux
If you do a search and it gives back too much stuff, then just stick "| less" on the end. Same with anything, i.e. "ls -ha | less" or "dmesg | less".
To sync just do "emerge sync", to check what updates are available "emerge -Dup world" and to install them all "emerge -Du world". You may also want to change your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="" to "~x86-64". And don't forget the March perameters, except I think you need to use Athlon-XP for that as they don't have an Athlon-64 version.
Agreed! I just did a stage 1 install on a P4 3.0GHz. From stage1 to fully functioning KDE was less than 8 hours. Probably could have been less if I didn't go to sleep while it was going. :smiles:
Then again I've installed gentoo more times than I can count on my server and desktop pcs over the past 2.5 years...If you are new to linux, gentoo will teach you a lot. It definitely is frustrating at times tho, (especially for a person new to linux) but their forums and irc channels are excellent and the people are generally helpful and not too "leet and condescending". :smiles:
Essentially, the more you get toward Gentoo and away from the Fedora Project 1.0 or Lindows 4.0, the more you end up rolling your own software set (from kernel up), and in essence rolling a custom Linux earlier in the install process. Mandrake strikes a medium between these two ends, it has a whole set of optional kernels on CD ISOs and then for most scenarios the Linux install script set figures out which to use. also note, KDE is HUGE in its entirety and some scripts grab all of it in archive form before installing when you do an FTP install. KDE also has very complex deps between its parts these days.
John.