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I have worked my way through the installation of Gentoo 2008.0 from |
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the LiveCD (amd64), running into several wrinkles along the way, and |
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eventually overcoming most of them. I plan to document the process at |
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another time. |
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I want to express my joy at the result (except for some personal |
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errors, perhaps). This system runs MUCH faster, and more efficiently |
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than it did on Ubuntu. 1GB of RAM was often topped out on Ubuntu, but |
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on this machine even with four compiles going at once, I seldom saw |
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more than 5 or 600 MB of RAM in use (using HTOP and |
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Gnome-System-Monitor). |
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I am evaluating how much of the improvement may be from running XFCE4. |
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If it's a substantial difference, I may use this more, and Gnome or |
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KDE less. |
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I ended up, for now, installing this as one big partition, on a 74GB |
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drive. I will split partitions later. |
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Thank you to the list members who answered my earlier queries. |
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Alan |
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@×××××.com |
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"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." |
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---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man |
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"We have no art. We do everything as well as we can." ---Balinese saying |
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