Camasii said:I'm running 2.6 on my laptop under Gentoo and I have to say it runs very smoothly. I used to be a slackware user and switching over to gentoo was one of the best things I ever did. Check it out, the install is a bit complicated (do a stage3 if you're confused) but in the end it's worth having for portage, a system that automatically downloads, configures, compiles, and installs programs for you. It's a pretty basic install, you have to emerge (the command to use portage) X11 and Gnome\KDE\*box and everything else you need but theres lots of docs and such on the website, www.gentoo.org
-Tim
NetRyder said:Hehe, took me a couple of recompiles as well. Kept making stupid errors like installing the Radeon modules, but leaving out the AGP controller. But it was worth it in the end, I think.
X-Istence said:My BSD compile always works, and i have never run mergemaster, as it always ****s up my config files, and i like em the way they are currently, until i have a problem i aint touching it. Unless i know something changed that i need to know about.
j79zlr said:ok 2.6.1 installed getting a couple errors, google makes me think that there is an error with 2.6.1
bash-2.05b# dmesg | grep error
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- snd-card-1. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-6-0. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-10-134. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Note that everything is working correctly.
vern@wenberg: vern $ uname -a
Linux wenberg 2.6.3 #1 Sun Feb 22 01:35:19 CST 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
vern@wenberg: vern $ uptime
03:59:44 up 16 days, 10:51, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00