Charles Nadeau: My SoftwareComments and observations related to the usage and installation of softwares on my systems.Continuing the conversion to Gentoo- June 11, 2003 I finished installing Gentoo Linux on 3 of my old Linux boxes (2 to go). It runs very smoothly. I am really impressed by Gentoo Linux. I am upgrading my OpenMosix kernel to 2.4.20-3 and I face some little quirks. Hopefully they'll be resolved soon. I also finally configured succesfully distcc. Not every ebuilds use it: MySQL doesn't but ntp does. I guess it's a case-by-case type of thing. Hoepully X and KDE will take advantage of it otherwise it will take a week again to compile...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/06/11.html#a299 Two machines converted to Gentoo- June 2, 2003 Spent most of the week-end finishing and fine-tuning my installation of Gentoo Linux on two old boxes I have. It is very stable and more responsive than Red Hat 7.3 I used previously on these two boxes. The only drawback is that I now have two OpenMosix clusters: One with three machines running Red Hat 7.3kernel 2.4.16 and one with two machines running Gentoo 1.4_rc4kernel 2.4.20. I'll probably start to convert one more Red Hat machine to Gento tonight.And the rest over the next week-end. I am..http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/06/02.html#a298 |