The Sandman
October 25th, 2002 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison |XFree is installed, as best I can tell. I haven’t yet configured or tested the installation. Instead, I started the Gnome download as soon as XFree was finished and dashed off the last two sections of Penguin Shell. Gnome has been downloading it’s individual components and installing for well over an hour, now. And, it’s nearly 3 am - the paying workday is a mere 5 hours away. It looks like a weekend of finishing up the install and configuring to my tastes. I’ll keep this blogcast running until it’s done. For now, the sandman beckons.
One Response to “The Sandman”
By Gary Berg on Oct 25, 2002 | Reply
Tony,
I installed Gentoo myself a month or so ago. In the past I’d played a little with Mandrake and RedHat, but only from the POV of a Windows user peeking a little at how the “other side” works.
I did have some trouble on my first installation, basically I forgot to mount the /boot partition and so it wouldn’t boot. But starting with the second shot I had little trouble with Gentoo.
I _learned_ a lot! I know much more about how Linux works than I ever did playing with RedHat or Mandrake. Part of this is because the Gentoo tutorials walk you through the process of installing and configuring packages.
Gentoo isn’t for Grandma, but it’s not bad for someone who wants to understand what’s happening. On the same hardware it runs snappier than RedHat 8.0 did. It seems quite robust.
I had no trouble with network connections myself. I moved the system between work (T1) and home (DSL) and encountered no issues with respect to fetching files. It could be your connection or a one-time glitch with the Gentoo servers.