Gentoo Linux Musings

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday April 29, 2004 @03:17PM from the looking-back-looking-ahead dept.

ChaserPnk writes "Gentoo has been in the news recently. First with the news that Daniel Robbins leaving Gentoo and then with Gentoo Linux 2004.1 being recently released. Have you ever wondered how Gentoo got started? An article at IBM DeveloperWorks explains how. Get to know the history of Gentoo." darthcamaro wrote in with a related story that suggests that Gentoo is preparing to change directions soon: "Is Gentoo gearing up to be the third major enterprise distro? That's what an article running on internetnews.com points to. They talked to the head of Gentoo's enterprise efforts. For those that think that Gentoo Enterprise is far off, Gentoo's guy figures if they had the cash they'd be up and running in 6 months."

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Binary flag? by Nooloo · 2004-04-29 15:58 · Score: 0, Troll

Having used gentoo for near 2 years now and always hearing people complain about the time it takes to compile everything, Ive often wondered why they havent just added some kind of flag to emerge/portage which would specify installing a binary package instead of compiling from source. It would def. be handy for huge compilation tasks like KDE, GNOME, etc...
Uh by bonch · 2004-04-29 16:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Wow, so you mean I can upgrade Slackware 8 from Slackware 9 with no problems? How about Red Hat 7 to Red Hat 8?

Yeah...