I used the stage3 pre-built stuff. It takes awhile even on a P4. It is a
little fragile being on the bleeding edge. It's a lot more "hands on" than
apt-get. It's not for novices, methinks.
On Saturday 14 December 2002 06:02 pm, Manuel Lora wrote:
> How long did it take to compile your current setup? Also, any problems with
> emerge and updating packages? It seems rather fragile.
>
> ml
>
> On Friday 13 December 2002 18:59, Scott Harney wrote:
> > Debian.
> >
> > I also now use gentoo.
> >
> > You can not happily use either without a decent net connection though.
> >
> > On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:38 pm, usserylaw@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > > which flavor of linux do you use/prefer and why? i recently got redhat
> > > 8.0 up and running on an old weak emachine -- works great. couldn't
> > > get mandrake 9.0 to work -- kept hanging on install -- some kind of
> > > scsi error -- don't have any scsi devices on the emachine as far as i
> > > know.
> > >
> > >
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