[ale] Distro

[hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

There is a lot of velocity in the Gentoo project; things have indeed
changed and are changing all the time.  If you haven't heard about it,
it's because you haven't followed the docs and the newsletters.  

I'm not 100% certain, but I believe you can set up a useful desktop
system entirely from CDs (see Gentoo Reference Platform).

Jeff

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:08, James Sumners wrote:
> Last time I gave Gentoo a shot the only binaries to be had were the initial base
> system binaries. There were still undecided if they wanted to provide pre-built
> binaries in the emerge repository. Has this changed and I not heard about it? If
> not, I agree with the initial statement that Gentoo is more of a PIA than it is
> useful.
> 
> On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:42:55 -0500
> Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Please understand that under Gentoo, the choice to compile everything is
> > just that - a choice.  You can install binaries and you won't hurt for
> > much.  You may have to compile a kernel; I'm not sure how how mandatory
> > that is.