Totally hooked on gentoo!

Roderik · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 55 Location: Belgium

Since forever i've had 2 computers, one as server (running linux, redhat or mandrake) and to play with, and my main box running windows (2k/xp) for real jobs (watching divx, flashfxp, msn etc

).

Problem with the ms box was it worked but wasn't exactly fun to play with, sure a new xp theme was fun but it isn't exactly exiting. And with the linux box that it was slow (PII 233 with 512mb ram), x worked buggy, programs didn't do what i wanted them to do etc, typical new linux user stuff i guess. Same thing happend those 2-3 times i treid linux @ my main box (duron 1ghz), it just didn't have the smoothness i was accustomed to desktop wise.

After upgrading my linux box to a athlon 750 2 week ago i descided to finally give gentoo a shot, i was bored, i had exams, so time a plenty

And wow, i was amased, i started to work more and more on the linux box and finally last week installed it on my main box too. It installed perfectly, kernel compile went good, sound worked (took some playing though, they didn't mention in the desktop guide that alsa didn't like if you'd installed the emu10k1 in the kernel), i can watch my divx, i can surf great with mozilla, evolution is a good replacement for outlook and the fluxbox desktop has exactly the kind of performance and functionality i want in a desktop.

Main conclusion, Gentoo Linux rulez so hard even ms lovers can appreciate it!

WyriHaximus · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject:

Well your not the only one here

I installed it a week ago on my seccond handed 2,6Ghz 512MB RAM

. And it worked perfect install went smooth (except I overwrited my bzImage in /boot wiht my config :oops:

but after that everything worked great). My first time installing gentoo was on my 400Mhz server

(I need to update my kernel there to get lufs working but can't find the guide for it

) and now 9 months later I'm runnign 100% gentoo

. It has everything and more then windows

and most things are better

msn works great IPv6 support maxium custimizeble

and lots mroe

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Whoops I mis read the date and found out I've replyed on a topic of 5 months ago :oops:

Sorry for this :oops:

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Grtz,

WyriHaximus

frippz · Guru Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Sweden

Nice grave robbing there, diggin' up a two year old thread...

One would hope that such a clue as "upgrading to a AMD 750" would hint it out!

eeknay · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:27 am Post subject:

30726 · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1501

I guess that's one unanswered posts less :lol:

WyriHaximus · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:48 am Post subject:

Whoops it's even older then 5 months :oops:

I realy should sleep first before posting here :oops:

I found it when searching for a kernel upgrading guid

Grtz,

WyriHaximus

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

kamagurka · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:04 pm Post subject:

weee.
/me dances around the grave.
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