Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released [LWN.net]

Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released

Posted Mar 1, 2004 23:15 UTC (Mon) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released

Cool. I've been researching Gentoo, as I'm considering installing it on the
spare back hundred gig of my 200 gig hard drive.. I'm now running Mandrake
Cooker for AMD64 on a dual Opteron system, and haven't been entirely
happy with its progress as compared to i586 cooker. (KDE 3.2 is STILL not
available for AMD64, tho it's been out on i586 since the betas, at least, and
since KDE is my graphical desktop of choice...)

Among other things a dual Opteron should be useful for, an "emerge world"
would seem to stand out. <g> I must confess I'm a bit curious how long it'd
actually TAKE on this thing. (Or perhaps more precisely, how much time it
would NOT take, that it WOULD take, on a uniprocessor Athlon XP or
Pentium 4.) I DID get purchase this so I could DO just that sort of thing,
after all. <g>

Duncan

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Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released

Posted Mar 2, 2004 11:31 UTC (Tue) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link]

You are one lucky guy.

My current gentoo box is a Celeron 566 with 192M of RAM; I started
emerge OpenOffice yesterday and it was still running this morning :(

Still I am not complaining; gentoo runs much better on that box than any
other reasonable linux distro.

Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released

Posted Mar 2, 2004 15:42 UTC (Tue) by dkite (guest, #4577) [Link]

One way to install it without losing your machine for a couple days is to
chroot, and install. It takes another partition, and a little more
complication here and there.

You can then dual boot if you want until things are set up decently.

On my athlon 2200 with 512 megs, KDE takes about 5 hours.

Derek