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On May 10, 2006, at 4:48 PM, ted leslie wrote: |
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> Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look. |
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> I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. .... a bit of |
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> trouble. |
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> I assume things are alot more refined now. |
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> I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from, |
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> Can anyone comment on how good GENTOO LIVE CD is on device detection, |
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> in particular Network cards, USB, and to a lesser extent graphics/ |
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> monitors. |
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I haven't tested live cds extensively, but i have a fairly odd box |
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here, amd64 with a broadcomm gig-e adapter and an nvidia gig-e |
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adapter, no sound card, ati rage xl video onboard. I also have an |
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ibm netfinity 5100 and a dell laptop, all running gentoo. all |
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devices available at the live cd. However.... i did find quite a bit |
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of problems with the amd64 with a 3ware 8000 series sata raid |
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controller. I ended up having to install ubuntu 64-bit on a small |
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partition and use that to install gentoo. wasn't too happy about |
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that. But that is the ONLY device non-starter on all the hardware |
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i've thrown at gentoo. Now, i'm not really using the livecd...just |
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for install purposes... But I must say, knoppix was every bit as |
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good on the same hardware...except for sound on the inspiron 1100 |
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laptop. |
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