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Trying out Gentoo

July 27, 2006

This morning I was able to install OpenOffice, Picasa, K3b, Rosegarden, and a slew of other libraries to further customize my Linux box.

However, in terms of getting optimized software for my computer, I could say that not all have been compiled for an i686-level processor (I have an AMD Athlon XP processor).

So here I am trying out Gentoo, a ‘metadistribution’ as the developers would call it. I can have the option to boot from the LiveCD I’ve just downloaded and install a clean Linux system by downloading the source to the packages I need and compiling everything.

I’ve booted the LiveCD (I’m using it to post this message). Shortly I’ll try compiling everything.

I hope things would go well. 

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