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> Wow. I never realized that could be done. Tres geek points for ya. |
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Thank you. After a month of research I really have deserved some geek |
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points. :-) |
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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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That is outdated since they started to run Gentoo on Irix, Mac, Interix ... |
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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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Also Interix has Windows kernel. So Gentoo/Windows is around since a |
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while. Still Interix is more Unix-like than Cygwin. |
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It was last sunday, when I manged to compile the last package from my |
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system list. |
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However, today I have observed that "emerge -e" draws in a few new |
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packages that I still havn't compiled yet. I need to solve some issues |
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for that. That was the reason for my question. |
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Once 'emerge -e' works, I will go and publish all that stuff. Then |
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Gentoo/Cygwin is out in the wild. |
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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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I have a vision. That is a USB-stick with a LAMP stack on it. It runs |
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on any OS (Mac, Windows, Linux). You can plug in, whereever you like |
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and start working. |
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Same sources, same version, same data, just different binaries. All |
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done with the Gentoo build system. |
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You may replace LAMP by the software of your choice. |
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Al |