WOOHOO! SWITCHING TO LINUX!

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: 1Cheap2Crazy

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
I suggest installing Ubuntu.

That did not work for me today. Computer noob, n00b, whatever. My screen resolution was stuck at 640x480. I tried SUSE, it did the same thing, installed Red Hat 9 and it worked! I picked 800x600 but they also offered 1024x768. May have to see if I can change that.
It's a spare PC, to scared to try a dual boot. Will have to try and connect to the internet next.

Good luck, OP.

RH 9 is dead.

 

[1Cheap2Crazy]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: 1Cheap2Crazy

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
I suggest installing Ubuntu.

That did not work for me today. Computer noob, n00b, whatever. My screen resolution was stuck at 640x480. I tried SUSE, it did the same thing, installed Red Hat 9 and it worked! I picked 800x600 but they also offered 1024x768. May have to see if I can change that.
It's a spare PC, to scared to try a dual boot. Will have to try and connect to the internet next.

Good luck, OP.

RH 9 is dead.

How so? If I can connect to the web(so far I haven't figured it out after 2 hours) and use the applications, text, images, video, it's good enough for me. The PC came with WindowsME with Works!!! installed on it and I don't want to return to that.

 

[Nothinman]

How so? If I can connect to the web(so far I haven't figured it out after 2 hours) and use the applications, text, images, video, it's good enough for me. The PC came with WindowsME with Works!!! installed on it and I don't want to return to that.

It's not supported any more, Fedora is it's successor.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: nweaver
stage 3 gentoo is for n00bs and old ladies....

stage one on PPro w/64 MB ram.....and I want Gnome AND KDE please. Call me next year when you are finished


I stage one/two almost every build. I have never actually tried a stage 3.

Heh, stage one/two is for n00bs

Seriously, I used to do stage 1 all the time, then I found a way to do it faster and even better.

1. Do a stage 3 install.
2. Emerge all the programs you want.
3. Edit make.conf with all your CFLAGS etc (-march=whatev -02 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer is plenty. 03 breaks things and causes larger binaries with +2 to -1% speed differences, -ffast-math breaks a lot of things...)
4. Re-emerge gcc, glibc.
5. Reboot.
6. emerge -ea world
7. Leave computer on until it's done... use as per usual.
8. cd /usr/src/linux && make clean && make modules_install
9. Reboot to new kernel. Done.

The benefits of this over a stage 1 install are:

1. System is usable much more quickly.
2. gcc is compiled by the same version of gcc, and then all other programs are compiled with the new version.

Cons:

none.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Heh, stage one/two is for n00bs

Seriously, I used to do stage 1 all the time, then I found a way to do it faster and even better.

1. Do a stage 3 install.
2. Emerge all the programs you want.
3. Edit make.conf with all your CFLAGS etc (-march=whatev -02 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer is plenty. 03 breaks things and causes larger binaries with +2 to -1% speed differences, -ffast-math breaks a lot of things...)
4. Re-emerge gcc, glibc.
5. Reboot.
6. emerge -ea world
7. Leave computer on until it's done... use as per usual.
8. cd /usr/src/linux && make clean && make modules_install
9. Reboot to new kernel. Done.

The benefits of this over a stage 1 install are:

1. System is usable much more quickly.
2. gcc is compiled by the same version of gcc, and then all other programs are compiled with the new version.

Cons:

none.

IIRC, gcc recompiles itself with itself.

gcc-old compiles gcc-new
gcc-new compiles gcc-new-2
gcc-new-2 compiles gcc-final

Or something like that.

 

[silverpig]

Yeah, that's if you bootstrap.

make bootstrap

Stage1 gentoo does that in a script. I'm not 100% sure, but I think just an emerge gcc will just do it once, although I'm not 100% sure. Seems odd that they'd have it that way though.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Isn't bootstrapping part of the official gcc build process?

 

[silverpig]

I dunno. I've never built it manually like that.