[gentoo-dev] Fwd: AboutGentoo Linux

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: AboutGentoo Linux

[Bart Verwilst]

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Subject: AboutGentoo Linux
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 13:48:58 +0300
From: Yovko Ilchev Yovkov <yyovkov@mail.bg>
To: verwilst@gentoo.org

Hello Boy(s)!!!

This letter is not only for you, but all the developers. I deside to send to
you, becouse I want to ask you for something.

But first I want to excuse me for my bad English!

So now I can thank you (and all others developers) for Gentoo.
I am "advanced Linux user". I am not a programmer or system administator or
web developer. I just use Linux for my home & work Desktop. Till few days ago
my favourite distribution was Slacware, becouse I like high aalablity
customising. But with slack there was some problems to tell it "UPDATE
YOUSELF". I tried also Debian. But there is too old pckages. I was thinking
obout do start to develop Linux with FreeBSD package system. My fried tell me
that there is something like that. Gentoo! I tried it befor few days (on
monday) and I fell in ove with it. So now I start to browse your
documentation (becouse I install Gentoo on my box). The only thing need to
made this perfect distribution for me is missing Bulgarian language. So I
will start to learn more about GENTOO and I hope soon I can do somthing
little about this. The things I want to take a look is the Bulgarian fonts
(we use preferly cp1251 & utf8), bulgarian spellchecker, kbedictionary
(bulgarian - english dictionary) & some other little things. I hop this time
will come soon.

So I want to ask you something. I thought you are developing ebuilds for
 licq. I emerge my licq and I found that in the file
"/usr/kde/3/share/applnk/Internet/licq.desktop"  in the line Exec=licq got to
be Exec=licq -p kde-gui. May be I am in wrong ... but in my box it work in
that way.

There may be one other problem but I have no time to test it right now. There
missing file "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/microsoft-cp1251/Compose" . Missing
of tthis file make crush X server when I try to start KDE for exampla. Only
thing we (you) must do is to touch this file.

So, thanks boy(s) for GENTOO, and I hope I can help you in some cases.

P.S: I've get myself mini CD (3.5'' i think) and burn my GENTOO on it. If you
have shipping something like that but with the GENTOO Logo on the side I will
beg you to tell where can I bye myself one. It's is very sweety in this way.

P.S.2: ot 8.sept. we'll have linux install Fest in Sofia (our capital sity
 and the biggest town). I will introduce GENTOO under theme "Big power of
 little distributions".

So now it's time to say Good Bye & Luck.

Yovko Yovkov

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-- 
Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Release Coordinator
Gent, Belgium

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: AboutGentoo Linux

[KOMACHI Mamoru]

Hi, I'm not a developer but a user who started to use Gentoo last week, but
I also feel portage comfortable.

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:46:21PM +0200, Yovko Ilchev Yovkov wrote:

> Till few days ago my favourite distribution was Slacware, becouse I like
> high aalablity customising. But with slack there was some problems to tell
> it "UPDATE YOUSELF".

The day before yesterday I tried to put portage on Slackware, and all I did
was just copying portage tree, portage bin & lib (symlinks as well),
/var/cache/edb and /etc/make* stuff(accordingly /etc/env.d), but it seems
working now. You can merge, unmerge and upgrade you system with portage on
Slackware.

I made Slackware tgz package to install portage onto slack, but I don't
think you need it because it is too easy!  

> I tried also Debian. But there is too old pckages.

Have you tried testing or unstable? You could use testing/unstable packages
on stable using PIN or recompile testing/unstable packages from deb-src...

> I was thinking obout do start to develop Linux with FreeBSD package
> system.

Just FYI, there is a project from NetBSD pkgsrc(although the number of
pkgsrc is limited compared to FreeBSD ports):

	http://www.netbsd.org/zoularis/

Now I'm exploring portage tree and playing with ebuild files. Thank you for
all the developers of Gentoo Linux.

-- 
KOMACHI Mamoru <usata@sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
http://www.sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~usata/