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Gentoo for Mac OS X Released

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Apple Legal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lock and load Apple legal team.

  2. Re:emerge karmawhore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As an experienced linux user (circa 1997) -- when you were still in diapars -- I say Gentoo users are riceboys. After all the hell I've gone through with the earlier distros, writing my own device drivers, etc., there is one thing that becomes clear:

    Compiling everything will take more time than you will ever save by adding a few optimizations!

    Sorry, but my time is valuable, so I'll stick with real distributions like Debian or Fedora.

  3. G5? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's the best Linux distro for the G5?

  4. How about :The War In Heaven by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st person shooter where you play an angel
    Tring to defeat satan, while learning about the bible.
    ( wicked cool )

    http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/warinheaven/

  5. Debian's alternative by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's a debian equivalent for those who like the super-cow power at http://fink.sourceforge.net/

  6. Re:Full Text (images already /.'ed) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Duh to the rescue: When Apple, a
    • hardware company
    that just happens to provide software to make its products usable, releases a superior piece of software, they say, "Redmond, we have a problem." "Redmond" refers to Microsoft, a
    • software company
    . How exactly is software that runs on Apple hardware a problem for Apple? Example: "Dreamweaver competes with GoLive, both of which run on Apple hardware. One may be better than the other. Superior software running on the platform could generate more hardware sales, thus hurting Apple." Cute "sales" pitch, but it don't make-a de sense.
  7. Re:emerge karmawhore by javax · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gentoo seems to be for people to play around with Linux (which can be good), but if you prefer to work on your Linux workstation, I'd recommend either Debian or Redhat. The bleeding edge aint a good choice if you want stability.
    The Gentoo users I know are like wow, 214% faster, cause I compiled dhcpd myself, optimized for my P4! and sometimes like rats, I hosed my productive system with the kernel update again!

  8. I have a bad feeling... by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that "This one goes to 11" might become the new "In Soviet Russia..". Its funny now, but just wait it will soon become very stupid.

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  9. Can you boot Darwin with GRUB on x86? by Petronius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Has anyone been able to do this? It's been driving me crazy for the last couple of days! Any clues?

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