[rescue] Linux help (was ZX coolness)

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:00:15AM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
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>>What distribution are you running? Have you tried Gentoo? It really is 
>>nice. It is really easy to get up and running with ReiserFS, ext3, XFS, 
>>JFS and the nVidia drivers.
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>Debian.  They supposedly make it easy to get up and running with
>ReiserFS, ext3, and XFS, but they didn't do it that way 2 years ago when
>I created this install.  And I don't want to reinstall, or reformat my
>disks.   However, installing ext3fs soon wouldn't require doing either.
>I think I just need to run some utility to initialize the journal and
>compile in kernel support.  I already have the ext3fs tools installed.
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>What package system does gentoo use?  I've come to really dislike the
>RPM system.  .deb is a lot better, although it still causes me trouble
>try to enforce dependencies too hard.
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It uses something called portage. It's basically a ports tree and things 
are downloaded and compiled when you install it.

The install is more complicated than Debian (you basically do everything 
by hand), but the guide is really nice and your entire system is 
compiled for you.

I love it. It took a while to compile everything, but it is fast. They 
are very bleeding edge. I am running the latest KDE, OpenOffice, 
Evolution and it is very purdy.

shawn