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June 05, 2004
Gentoo Linux
Just installed Gentoo Linux on my machine a few days back. So now, I have a dual boot of Windows XP Professional and Gentoo. I was earlier using Red Hat 9.0, but I got really bored of it and hence decided to go for Gentoo.
Their installation uses the Knoppix concept of LiveCD and is pretty cool. I wrote a script which can help newbie users install Gentoo using the Stage 3 tarball. The script can be found here. This particular version of the script is not tested, I used a more machine specific script for myself. Once I installed Gentoo and updated the system, I converted the script to it's present form, hence it may contain errors. If you find any, please inform me about it.
Gentoo's package management system "Portage" simply rocks!! All in all, since I'm still in a R&D sort of a phase with GNU/Linux, I have to say that Gentoo has been a lot of fun to work with and learn.
Posted by dpillay at June 5, 2004 04:45 PM