Gentoo for Mac OS X Released

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Posted by Hemos on Monday July 19, 2004 @04:17AM from the continuing-the-growth dept.

joeljkp writes "According to today's Gentoo Weekly News, Gentoo has released a new project: Gentoo MacOS (sic). This new distribution adds Portage, Gentoo's package manager, to Mac OS X, among other things."

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Re:Cool by Wally+Fenderson · 2004-07-19 04:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Still waiting for the commodore 64 version, myself.

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Server, we have a problem by Petronius · 2004-07-19 04:29 · Score: 3, Funny

3 posts and it's already slashdotted. nice.

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Re:Yea, and? by hunterx11 · 2004-07-19 04:35 · Score: 5, Funny

This one goes to 11.

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Re:emerge karmawhore by Bold+Marauder · 2004-07-19 04:42 · Score: 4, Funny

Personally, on x86 I had far more problems with setting up gentoo (I have to compile a kernel during the installation? how fucked up is that?) than I ever had with using packages under mandrake (particularly when using easy urpmi.

I mean, different stroke for different folks, certainly. But gentoo's strenth is its' ability to squeeze 0.0008 percent more processing power out of your 2.4ghz computer; not ease of use or installation. That arena is where (imho) mandrake really shines.
Re:OK, so... by doodlelogic · 2004-07-19 04:43 · Score: 4, Funny

where do I download the source code for OSX?
Uhm... here?
Oh the, err for want of a better word, 'Humanity'! by Thud457 · 2004-07-19 04:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Dear God, No!
All idiotic zealtory of Gentoo with all the, well, mindless zealotry of Mac! A winning combination!

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Re:Yes! Finally! Optimized MacOS! by Antihero77 · 2004-07-19 05:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Doesn't anyone know the right compiler flags? Does O4 work on a Mac?! AWESOME! I'm going to go recompile my Gentoo in celebration of this huge day.
See ya in 6 months.

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Re:emerge karmawhore by javiercero · 2004-07-19 05:22 · Score: 3, Funny

He was just giving an example, you anal retentive geek....
Re:emerge karmawhore by Sloppy · 2004-07-19 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Compiling everything will take more time than you will ever save by adding a few optimizations!
Sorry, but my time is valuable
Your time is valuable, but the computer's time is not. I recommend you use a program called "gcc" to compile, instead of manually translating C into machine language by hand. What this will allow you to do, is have the computer do all this compiling work, while you can do anything you want (write a program, sleep, watch a movie, drink beer, hang out under the escalator at the mall and try to look up girls' dresses, send radio messages to the UFOs to try to get them to return Elvis -- almost anything!), without it taking any of your time.
Linux has changed a lot since 1957. I'm tellin' ya, these fully automated compilers are the shit!!

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Ah...But... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-19 05:48 · Score: 2, Funny

The real question is, when is portage going to move over to a real opreating system? ...ya know. Like Windows.
Re:Let's get it straight... by halivar · 2004-07-19 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny

I WAN'T MacOS software, it's user friendliness, simplicity, consistency and excelent graphical core with all that eye candy on my x86 machine. Without a loss of speed. Clear enough?

And I WANT a Ferrari Testarossa that gets 40 miles to the gallon. AND I want laser beams on the hood! Clear enough?
Re:I have a bad feeling... by Woody77 · 2004-07-19 08:05 · Score: 3, Funny

In Soviet Redmond, the 11 goes to you?
Why did you bother posting? by paz5 · 2004-07-19 08:08 · Score: 2, Funny

Guess you were right. About the modding part that is...
Re:Full Text (images already /.'ed) by senatorpjt · 2004-07-19 08:44 · Score: 1, Funny

The Gentoo MacOS developers are busy polishing the
knobs

How are they ever going to finish it if they're spending all day polishing their knobs?