I'm a big Gentoo Linux fan, but over the years, I've gotten irritated about how much time I have to spend compiling during the installation process--and I'm not not talking about a stage1 install either. Theoretically, I could use GRP to get going a little faster, but I've never had much success with it and I'm not willing to stick with its list of USE flags and slower release cycle.
What I want is a Gentoo installation tarball that is already up-to-date, includes a *working*, generic kernel, and takes almost no-time to install. So, I setup a build machine at my house to do this very thing. You can now find my Gentoo snapshots at:
http://neumannhaus.com/gentoo/snapshots/
On a side note, another interesting solution that I'm not presently exploring is the based Gentoo variant Kororaa. Maybe one day I'll have time to actually install it and give it a go.
Posted by enigma at March 14, 2006 09:51 PM