SoulSe Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 Honestly, how many desktop users have time to spend a whole day + on a basic install?!? I understand that it is a great, streamlined distro and makes coffee for yer and all of that, but you speak like it is the messiah of distros. In my *very humble* opinion, it seems to be perfect for a server. If you have the time to set it up on your desktop, good for you. But this is the MANDRAKEusers board... ya know. I need a pee -all this excitement. Ciao :wink: Disclaimer: SoulSe is being silly, lets not flame. Just pokein' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalee Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 Ha! Real men do LFS! :D Seriously, I'd like to try Gentoo, but how long do you suppose it would take with a dialup and a P200/128meg? :shock: I not sure I'd live long enough to get a working system. dalee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 read the sig brother !!! :-P :mandrake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 Yea, gentoo seems to be the virus of this board. But like all illness with time we will be free of it. And all of you will go back to a real advanced, versatile, and powerfull distro: Mandrake :mrgreen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 I'd like to know why all these mandrake->gentoo converts with high speed connections or, what...powerpacks that come with the source, haven't tried rpmrebuilder...or something. Seems to me that if you have that kinda time you'd just rebuild mandrake. Then you'd have the best of both worlds. I think aru is right though. Either they'll be back when the itch goes away or they'll find a diff advanced, versatile, and powerfull distro: *cough* :libranet: :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 :lol: Well, I agree, as libranet is the debian's mandrake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 Nothing against Gentoo (or other Linuc distro), but I still prefer Mandrake for myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 gentoo! gentoo! gentoo!!! ya'll are just afraid of the POWER of GENTOO! KNEEL!!!! KNEEEEEEEELLLL before the great distro that is Gentoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 I would love to give gentoo a try this summer, but I'm on a 56k dial-up and it sounds like that would be prohibitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 I like gentoo because of the knowledge I am gaining. And I' ll be the first to admit that I never would have done gentoo had I not had a Mandrake system fully functioning on my machine.:mystismiles: I will no doubt over the next few months, compile a Mandrake system from bootstrap on my machine. If I did not have dsl, I would be whining about my inability to download!!! I did it, because I can!!!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 I did it, because I can!!!! :lol: I guess that's the point. I don't have the time or the connetion. A distro that requires me to spend a day simply installing KDE seems highly impracticle as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 I'd like to know why all these mandrake->gentoo converts with high speed connections or, what...powerpacks that come with the source, haven't tried rpmrebuilder...or something. Seems to me that if you have that kinda time you'd just rebuild mandrake. Then you'd have the best of both worlds. I think aru is right though. Either they'll be back when the itch goes away or they'll find a diff advanced, versatile, and powerfull distro: *cough* :libranet: :unsure: Got any links that would help me to do this? I know I'd have to but a power pack first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 No. If I remember correctly rpmrebuilder --help man rpmrebuilder info rpmrebuilder seemed pretty self explainatory. I'm in RH9 rt now and don't have ML9.1 in fstab so I can't chroot to it, but you can also do; urpmf --summary --description rpmrebuilder to get an Idea of what it is suppose to do. I would have tried it by now, but I can't afford a powerpack and I'm dialup. You're highspeed aren't you? Just download the .src.rpm's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 I guess that's the point. I don't have the time or the connetion. A distro that requires me to spend a day simply installing KDE seems highly impracticle as well... You don't need time... you only need the connecton!! You only have to type two words to install (ie download, configure, compile and install) KDE. emerge kde .. and then wait a day or two for Portage to install KDE on your machine :lol: . .. I mean, this isn't long to type 2 words :wink: MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 No. If I remember correctly rpmrebuilder --help ... the exact name is 'rpmbuild', a symbolic link to /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb, which is the same that "rpm --rebuild". ;) Also, ezroller, if you still want to do it, search in this board (also in google) for the string "mandrake a la gentoo"; you should find a link to a document that explains step by step how to do it. Basically the things you have to do are: a) compile in this order: binutils, gcc, glibc B) compile again in this order: binutils and gcc (thus getting a full optimized compiler and libraries) c) compile every app you'd like to optimize (ofcourse using the optimized flags for your cpu) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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