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abf takes on gentoo: round ....5? (i honestly lost count)

post #1 of 5
5/7/06 at 5:37pm
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Anyway....yeah... the title speaks for itself but i am giving gentoo yet ANOTHER shot. Currently compiling xorg (6.8 because fglrx works like crap with 7.0).


i have included a few optimizations here and there for speed, beacuse as we all know, if you're not going for speed, whats teh point of having gentoo in the first place...right?


so far i am planning this system to be rather straight-forward 1app = 1 task with a lightweight desktop, thinking xfce, but might just give e17 a shot... i dont know yet, so if you have any advice shoot.

the custom kernel is really really really stripped, nothing but the basic essenials have been compiled, which is the way things have to be after all... all in effort to minimize resource use.

i still have to fix my grub.conf (perhaps even fix some details in the kernel regarding fb) because although i am going for a pretty bare-bones sytem, i do want the text to be hidden on boot.
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post #2 of 5
5/7/06 at 8:10pm
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i have included a few optimizations here and there for speed, beacuse as we all know, if you're not going for speed, whats teh point of having gentoo in the first place...right?
Used to think this Actually Gentoo CAN be great for speed, but also you can run it for very customized things that make it quite good. Anyways e17, um depending on what day you get teh CVS version can make a difference on how well it works Read the e17 on Gentoo Wiki, dont use the SF CVS, it sucks, and you should be fairly well set though. There were two things I had to patch by hand from the ebuild that did a CVS checkout, but both of those were mentioned in the wiki and may no longer be required, not sure. Seablade
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post #3 of 5
5/7/06 at 8:24pm
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ooo.....e17 sure does look nice.. but i am drifting towards xfce4, it also seems easier to configure

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so yeah, i went with xfce4, i hate that its 4.2.... 4.3 has some nice features, but since its still testing i guess there is a good reason for 4.2. currently comiling. my system will come out to be something along the lines of "diet gnome" if you will. sticking with gnome and gtk, staying away from kde/qt.
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post #4 of 5
5/8/06 at 12:55am
QT in itself isnt bad. The problem is a lot of QT based linux programs also employ the KDE libs, which bloats them tremendously in size and memory. But small QT programs I have found to be perfectly useable as long as they dont use the KDE libs.

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post #5 of 5
5/8/06 at 1:33am
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....yeah... but the fact that kde-libs are pretty much everywhere in most qt apps, like you said yourself, i dont like the bloat. and a small footprint on memory is important. also helps with keeping a theme going, have all programs look the same, not have a mix of all sorts of stuff some looking gnome-ish, others kde-ish
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