I agree, USB can do everything and my 1gb memory stick will suffice thank you. My laptop has a pcmcia slot and I never used it. If I find out it doesn't work it wouldn't hurt me. This is an effort to be a big media hype making laptop users think they need some "new innovative technology". Let me hook up my USB printer, and my USB mouse. Is there something that I can't do with USB!?!?!
Being an AC helps.
Its nice to see how one person said the word fuck and you say that represents a bunch of people. Most linux users hate microsoft. If the rest of the world is microsoft than I guess we will do what we always do to microsoft. . . . Pay them no attention.
Nintendo hasn't given up in persuing them. They are asking for contact information so that they can raid their houses and still all their Nintendo merchandise! BEWARE. NINTENDO WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND TEAR OUT YOUR SOUL.
Ok. I have been using the beta for awhile and was hoping that someone with more knowledge (and more patience) would be willing to make a semi-thorough benchmark compared to C++ and any other languages (including 1.4.2) so that we can see how much more effective it is. Remember, if you do it well you could prolly get on slashdot;)
Most the ppl here are just saying "OMG, IT HARD INSTALL." Ok, we get it.
Here are the pros and cons as I see for gentoo.
Pros: -----
Good Documentation -- I have always had a problem resolved by simply reading the documentation. If it was a hardware specific issue even the gentoo nerds will talk about in the forums:-D
Fast(or slow?) -- Ok, this depends on how you set up your system but I have prelinked all my kde (though I use it none).
Easy to install software -- Yes, I love emerge. I used to use a slackware based distro and throwing tarballs on my hd and then finding a missing dependancy made it suck. It would take me 30 minutes to find all the required software just to install something simple.
Easy to update -- Once you have installed it, you can update by doing a emerge -uD world . . . oh I love this.
Doesn't make you install stuff that may be harmful -- They try to keep beta or untested stuff from being installed on your computer. For such a "nerdy" demographic I find this amazing. It is definetly great that you can choose to install unsafe software anyhow.
You learn -- This is arguable but I had never used hdparm before gentoo. Gentoo would be a good step towards learning before going to a linux from scratch since gentoo and LFS would go through the same steps.
Cons: -----
Hard to Install -- I agree it is more difficult than most. It wasn't too hard though. I went by the documentation and it went fine. Still takes quite awhile. An installer would make gentoo more popular.
Compiling everything -- You can use binary packages so nobody tell me this.
Not good for a network of pcs -- How often does a network need to update? Setup one computer and copy the system onto a cd (your own custom gentoo distro for a certain pc model!). You can set local portage mirrors too(binary packages). Anyhow, who is running linux on desktops that would want to use such a customizable distro? Get an easier distro to manage if you plan on customizing sound, etc.
KDE TAKES FOREVER TO COMPILE -- ARRRGGGHHHH!!!
This is all biased I know but I do consider the cons to really be cons for the most part.
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I agree, USB can do everything and my 1gb memory stick will suffice thank you. My laptop has a pcmcia slot and I never used it. If I find out it doesn't work it wouldn't hurt me. This is an effort to be a big media hype making laptop users think they need some "new innovative technology". Let me hook up my USB printer, and my USB mouse. Is there something that I can't do with USB!?!?!
Being an AC helps. Its nice to see how one person said the word fuck and you say that represents a bunch of people. Most linux users hate microsoft. If the rest of the world is microsoft than I guess we will do what we always do to microsoft. . . . Pay them no attention.
Err . . . well I haven't had any problems with it. I even have adblock disabling ads and it looks like ie ('cept no ads). Weird though.
you want to know . . . you want to know so bad . . . but THEY JUST . . . WON'T . . . LET . . YOU!!
Nintendo hasn't given up in persuing them. They are asking for contact information so that they can raid their houses and still all their Nintendo merchandise! BEWARE. NINTENDO WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND TEAR OUT YOUR SOUL.
Ok. I have been using the beta for awhile and was hoping that someone with more knowledge (and more patience) would be willing to make a semi-thorough benchmark compared to C++ and any other languages (including 1.4.2) so that we can see how much more effective it is. Remember, if you do it well you could prolly get on slashdot ;)
Most the ppl here are just saying "OMG, IT HARD INSTALL." Ok, we get it.
:-D
Here are the pros and cons as I see for gentoo.
Pros:
-----
Good Documentation -- I have always had a problem resolved by simply reading the documentation. If it was a hardware specific issue even the gentoo nerds will talk about in the forums
Fast(or slow?) -- Ok, this depends on how you set up your system but I have prelinked all my kde (though I use it none).
Easy to install software -- Yes, I love emerge. I used to use a slackware based distro and throwing tarballs on my hd and then finding a missing dependancy made it suck. It would take me 30 minutes to find all the required software just to install something simple.
Easy to update -- Once you have installed it, you can update by doing a emerge -uD world . . . oh I love this.
Doesn't make you install stuff that may be harmful -- They try to keep beta or untested stuff from being installed on your computer. For such a "nerdy" demographic I find this amazing. It is definetly great that you can choose to install unsafe software anyhow.
You learn -- This is arguable but I had never used hdparm before gentoo. Gentoo would be a good step towards learning before going to a linux from scratch since gentoo and LFS would go through the same steps.
Cons:
-----
Hard to Install -- I agree it is more difficult than most. It wasn't too hard though. I went by the documentation and it went fine. Still takes quite awhile. An installer would make gentoo more popular.
Compiling everything -- You can use binary packages so nobody tell me this.
Not good for a network of pcs -- How often does a network need to update? Setup one computer and copy the system onto a cd (your own custom gentoo distro for a certain pc model!). You can set local portage mirrors too(binary packages). Anyhow, who is running linux on desktops that would want to use such a customizable distro? Get an easier distro to manage if you plan on customizing sound, etc.
KDE TAKES FOREVER TO COMPILE -- ARRRGGGHHHH!!!
This is all biased I know but I do consider the cons to really be cons for the most part.