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On 2010-10-01, Al <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> You're running Gentoo Windows? |
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>>> Yes I do. |
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>> Someone is confused. ?I'm not sure who tho. ?:/ |
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> I run Gentoo on the Cygwin layer on Vista to be precise. There is no |
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> Linux kernel. |
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Wow. I never realized that could be done. Tres geek points for ya. |
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I think our ignorance is understandable when the first paragraph at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml states quite plainly that: |
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What is Gentoo? |
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Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD |
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that ... |
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> Others run Gentoo on BSD, on Interix or Irix, where there is no Linux |
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> kernel. |
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Linux and BSD et al. are pretty much just "Unix" (trademark and IP |
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arguments aside). |
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> I have a build script that needs 12 hours to compile the system |
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> packages on Cygwin including the GCC compiler itself. |
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The mind wobbles... |
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I knew you could run all the underlying stuff (bash, python, gcc, |
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etc.) on Cygwin, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that it's |
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technically possible to run Gentoo. I'm still a bit surprised that |
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anybody actually does it. I've been using Cygwin for a lot of years, |
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so I'd be willing to bet that installing IA32-Linux-Gentoo on a |
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windows-hosted VM is probably easier (though of course not quite the |
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same thing). |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My pants just went to |
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at high school in the Carlsbad |
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gmail.com Caverns!!! |
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