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Embedded Gentoo?

Posted by michael on from the patience-required dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gentoo Linux may soon begin showing up in consumer gadgets, thanks to a new project creating an embedded version of Gentoo Linux. The year-old project has achieved preliminary releases on x86, MIPS, PPC, and ARM. The releases include native core system binaries, along with toolchains for native or cross-platform compiling. Native compiling, eh... considering it's Gentoo, how long would X take to compile on an iPAQ? :-)"

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  1. -funroll-loops by Moonwick · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh great. So now my next DVD player's going to need a week from the time I first plug it in to compile everything from scratch.

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    1. Re:-funroll-loops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Wow, that was the fastest descent from "+4: Funny" to "-1: Flamebait" I've ever seen. I guess the moderators have all chosen their distro of choice.

      It's funny, mods. Laugh a little.

  2. rice it up - +15hp NOS sticker by craqboy · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    i am sure though once the thing is done compiling the speed will be much faster than any other distro because you compiled everything from scratch.

    this post is meant to be sarcastic.

  3. Keep your loops rolled... by PornMaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    After all, you can't -funroll-loops in a tiny space... ;)

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  4. Embedded gentoo? by arvindn · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Q. What's the time please?

    A. Please wait a few hours, my watch is compiling gentoo.