Re: February Meeting on the 15th

Or, you could do Saybayon, which is Gentoo with the basics already
compiled. It doesn't take as long to compile as normal Gentoo, but you
get a lot of the same advantages, and if you change your Ports source,
you can actually convert Saybayon to Gentoo, on your own time schedule.

SteveT

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:14:08 -0500
Michael Potts <[email protected]> wrote:

> Gentoo would likely be a great 'worst case senario' install but it
> would take a huge amount of time.
> 
> I have been toying with doing it off a remote VM with a nice beefy
> system, but even then it would not be that fast. Something like a
> Core i7 system locally may work better than my 4x3.0GHz Xeon server.
> 
> With a compile taking 3+ hours, it may need to be done TV-chef style,
> with a pre-done VM all ready after the compile stage. Just drop the
> 'raw' compile task in, pause the VM and unpause the already-completed
> VM.
> 
> Michael Potts
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> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jess Hires <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to see this with Gentoo. ;D
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Rob McKennon <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Wow,
> > >
> > > The next meeting is less than 2 weeks away!  Dan Bidleman and/or
> > > myself will be presenting on "how to install Linux".
> > > Demonstrating the basics
> > of
> > > setting up the partitions, sound and networking.  We hope to do
> > > this simultaneously with different distributions.  We also have a
> > > request to demonstrate how to load linux as a "Dual Boot" along
> > > side Windows 7.
> > >
> > > We'll see how it goes...
> > >
> > > Rob.
> > >
> > > p.s.  if you want to see a specific distro installed, let us know
> > > soon!
> > >
> > >
> > >
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