Kernel 2.6 Live CD From Gentoo 19
killergreen writes "I know some of us (myself in particular) really dig LiveCDs for work (some make fantastic diagnostic and/or security tools) or play. Well,here's one that incorporates the 2.6 kernel for experementation."
Re:Knoppix is closed... (Score:2, Informative)
Wake up and smell the kibble. Read the whole thing and they tell you where to go.
That's truly cool because..... (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:First of all (Score:1)
That's nice, but this is the first time I heard about this. In fact I've been interested in a 2.6 live CD for a while, just haven't looked for one. This saves me the time. I find it very useful to know that you are way ahead of Slashdot in news acquisition.
Second of all, gentoo LiveCDs aren't like knoppix or those other ones.
Really? I tried one and it totally reminded me of Knoppix. I got the one with Gnome and KDE, and it booted into Gnome and had many of your typic
Re:First of all (Score:2, Informative)
Yup, I admit,it's a couple of weeks old. I've been offline for a little bit, and had just caught up on my reading. Saw the post at gentoo.org just last night, and thought I'd share the info. Very glad to see that it helped at least a couple of people.
I run Gentoo on my home computer exclusively (did I spell that right? No spell checker here ;) ), and have found it to be "snappier" and more responsive than any other OS I've used. Including other distros. Anyone have benchmarks on various distros?
Re:First of all (Score:2)
OK, this isn't exactly an official benchmark, but I tried RedHat9 on my K6-2-450, full install. After installation, from hitting return in the gdm password box to KDE being ready to use took 1 minute and 35 seconds. With Gentoo installed from the pre-built GRP packages (i.e. not particularly optimised) the same PC did the same login-to-ready startup in
Re:First of all (Score:1)
Which kernel are you using? I'm using the gaming kernel myself. I'm with you in that my response time is similar, but with everything I do... loading the desktop included.
With your hardware (not picking on you or "looking down" on it...I'm not a technosnob), you might want to try a more lightweight graphical environment, such as Fluxbox, WindowMaker, IceWM, or XFCE4. True, these are not actual desktop environments, but are definitely not as likely to eat up all your RAM. KDE is not well known for b
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Kernel was probably 2.4.20, as this was a couple of months ago. Stock kernel source for RedHat, gentoo-sources for Gentoo.
Anyway, my other Linux boxes include an XP1900+/Radeon (at home) and a Sun E450 (quad Ultrasparc 400MHz) (at work).
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I'm posting w/ 2.6 now!! (Score:5, Informative)
There are about 20 pages of instructions on howto install the system, which after I printed it out, was much easier than I thought it would be. There is a large selection of software available from their site (games, sys utils, etc) and the whole system makes installing them very easy. The time spent compiling the program is prolly about as much as I would spend looking for it (and dealing with RPM hell)....
Overall it feels very snappy/quick and very consistent (I was beginning to find Mandrake a little flaky after 2 years of using 'drake).
I dunno, I just like it. Pretty much everyone now has an extra 10 gig or so on their hard drives, and installing this (and the new 2.6 kernel!)is pretty fun.
Just gave it a try. (Score:3, Informative)
Bit Torrent Link (Score:1, Flamebait)
Here is a torrent [vt.edu].
Gentoo UT 2003 Live-CD (Score:2)
04-11-2003 iso:
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/