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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Thorsten Fischer wrote: |
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> I discovered Gentoo Linux a few days ago and find it's port concept |
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> to be very fascinating. As I am a frequent writer for the german |
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> Linux Magazin, I decided to prepare an article about that distribution |
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> for one of the next issues -- after I get the 'build installation' |
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> cross-compiled for my laptop =) |
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Wonderful! :) |
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> First, I would appreciate anything pointed out that is important to know |
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> about gentoo and that is not covered on the website or the faq. I know |
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> this is quite an unspecific question, but as I do not know what is _not_ |
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> in the faq, i can't get more specific ;) User reports would be appreciated |
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> as well, bad ones as well as positive ones, as I would prefer a balanced |
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> view on gentoo. |
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It's important for you to know that the "Portage User Guide" is currently |
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out-of-date. We now have a command called emerge which should be used instead |
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of rsync and ebuild, and takes care of automatically resolving dependencies |
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using digraphs and can do other neat things. We should have updated Portage |
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User Guide documentation within a week. |
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Right now, everyone is working hard to get everything ready for Gentoo Linux |
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1.0_rc5. When 1.0_rc5 is released, we will also have a full ISO CD image |
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available, in addition to our normal build and system snapshots. |
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Let me know if you have any other questions. In the meantime, I'll try to set |
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aside some time to update the Gentoo Linux documentation. |
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Thanks for writing an article about Gentoo Linux! :) |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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