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Dear All, |
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I am a newbie here, and I wonder if I might ask you a few questions |
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about Gentoo. I've looked on the Gentoo website, but can't see answers |
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to all of these. |
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Basically, I've now used Mandrake/Mandriva for the last 4 years, and |
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become fairly proficient with it, but am considering that it is time to |
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move (Mdv is getting increasingly non-free, and is also less transparent |
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than it used to be; they also ignore bug reports!). Gentoo looks to me |
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to be the best alternative, and I have already made frequent use of the |
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excellent documentation eg on udev or dvd authoring. But before I jump |
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into the unknown, I wanted to ask a few things. |
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1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk |
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space for sources or CPU power to compile everything |
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kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that |
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will get me a fully working system within a few hours? Of course I want |
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to learn gentoo "properly", but I'd prefer to do this from within a |
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working system! |
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2)How exactly do gentoo security updates work? Under Mdv, there is a |
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mailing list with announcements of which RPMs to install. If I have a |
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binary-based distribution, will it be possible to keep it current? |
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3)Is there a relatively stable fork of gentoo with less frequent |
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updates, or do I have to stay on the bleeding edge? Of course I want to |
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get eg the latest kernel, or firefox, but I ran Mandrake Cooker for a |
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while, with > 100MB of updates per day and all sorts of random breakage! |
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4)Does anyone know of a good resource for ex-mandriva users? |
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Thank you very much for your help, |
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Richard |
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