how many of you tried/using Gentoo GNU/Linux????

[praka123]

what is the version of gnome available in gentoo(without overlay?)

 

[mehulved]

2.20.3 is available in stable. 2.22.0 is available but is hard masked.

 

[praka123]

...gentoo installation was sleeping till today!(10 days??) I am re-emering whole system as I forgot to add "X" USE flag.
just doing a "emerge -avuDN world" haha!
another USE I missed was "pulseaudio" what should I do?
what all packages needed to be re-emerged with pulseaudio flag?
OR
will they notify when pulseaudio dependent packages needs to be re-emerged?

OK.How I installed?
I had installed manually(I hate the installers both!) with stage3 and portage latest available from gentoo site/funtoo.org .

Now,tonight hoping to install gnome-2.22 as explained by my friend here:
Helpful Linux Tidbits
Hope it helps you too!

 

[QwertyManiac]

Just doing emerge gnome with ~x86 is giving me 2.22.0 already?

 

[Gigacore]

i am not able to install at all. My display goes off at the pre-installation screen and nothing happens

 

[QwertyManiac]

Do the Handbook method - You won't need X at all. After you've done the essential 15 minute job you can install X (takes around 20 minutes) and then work as you please.

 

[mehulved]

reconfigure X. read the docs.

Just doing emerge gnome with ~x86 is giving me 2.22.0 already?

Well that is what the article says. Only difference is just having gnome from unstable arch rather than moving totally to unstable arch. Unstable arch is great for developers, people with good experience but for most it's good to stay on stable arch and only take things from unstable if you need it.

 

[Gigacore]

oh, will have to try that. And I will need ur help further.

and mehul, remember this thread.

 

[mehulved]

Have you tried xorgconfig? And which nvidia card do you have. I believe Qwerty had no problems booting into live cd with his 7600GT on 2008.0 beta

 

[Renny]

Well I tried Gentoo and I could'nt even install it, I gave up on it.

 

[praka123]

well,gentoo is much easier now!they got installers(both gui and cli);although I think they may be buggy
I just did-extracted stage3 tar ball,portage snapshot.chrooted from sysrescuecd,compiled a kernel with initramfs support using genkernel script(--menuconfig).gr8!

 

[Gigacore]

@ mehul, MX 400

Ubuntu works fantastic with it

 

[Renny]

You're right both the GUI and CLI installers are extremely buggy,

And I never managed to understand "chroot'ed" install ,

Waitin for the vacations to start then I can start tinkering around with it.

 

[mehulved]

@ mehul, MX 400

Ubuntu works fantastic with it

Prolly I can download it someday and check on my sister's PC. But, not before my exams end. Yeah, when it comes to live cd's gentoo is prolly one of the worst around. But, I can assure you it's totally opposite once installed. Or if you use some live cd based on gentoo. Sabayon is one among them.

 

[praka123]

well,used layman -a gnome to add portage overlay.
but...cannot emerge latest Gnome.
also,there is no /etc/portage directory/files.
while layman stores overlay in /usr/portage/local dir.

what went wrong

 

[gary4gar]

Can anyone say whats the avg time spend in Downloading+compiling+configuring gentoo?

 

[mehulved]

Can anyone say whats the avg time spend in Downloading+compiling+configuring gentoo?

10 mins to lifetime.

well,used layman -a gnome to add portage overlay.
but...cannot emerge latest Gnome.
also,there is no /etc/portage directory/files.
while layman stores overlay in /usr/portage/local dir.

what went wrong

What are the errors in emerging it?
Nothing has gone wrong, if /etc/portage directory doesn't exist just create it. It doesn't exist by default.
Yes, layman stores your overlays as described in your make.conf line
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

I believe you can override it with following, if you want to
PORDIR_OVERLAY=/your/new/location

 

[praka123]

PORTDIR_OVERLAY= variable seems not working I set it as /usr/local/portage.but portage prefers /usr/portage/local

I had a chat in #gentoo.acc to them,with stable arch I am on(ie,ACCPT_KEYWORDS=x86) unlike ~arch,it is better and safer to wait for gnome-2.22 to reach stable repo this week.it is already unmasked.

For the time being,I emerged icewm,firefox-bin and happy

Now,It is a big disappointment that Gnome-2.22 was not there

 

[QwertyManiac]

I installed GNOME 2.22.0, its amazingly neater on defaults!

 

[praka123]

^so,ur using ~arch ?