Latch

I thought I'd check in on my new Gentoo box. I installed stage 1 using the instructions. There were a few points where I was unsure of myself, and the instructions explained it all perfectly. They are great.

My system seems to be noticibly faster, or maybe I am just imagining (placebo effect). Bootup/Gnome loading is definitely faster, I recognise that much. I am also quickly seeing how nice the Portage system is. I am currently very, very happy with everything and how it went installing.

Thanks for the advice/help guys.. pretty proud of myself for getting a stage 1 working/running!

For the record, it took about 24 hours (with 10 hrs sleep). I'm not completely finished yet, but I have my basic system (XFree86, Gnome, ALSA, Samba, Mozilla, XMMS) installed. Also have some other things installed, but didn't take as long. I think I still have a bit of a way to go (currently emerging gaim/apache/xine), but I'm off to a (very) good start.

cherrios: Good luck.. you may end up reading this by the time you're done though. Not sure where you see giant cow, I don't think I saw one at all.. am I missing something? Also, for #3 I found my LiveCD basic had links2 on it (similar to lynx).

edit: Thought of another question I had.

I'm noticing programs in the portage tree can be older than the currently-released version of a certain program. That's understandable as it would take time to add the new version.... I was just wondering who controls the Portage trees to add new stuff. Do the developers of the individual programs? Is there a set group of people? Do users submit a portage'd version to a certain place and it's added?

As you can see, not a real pressing question, just curious.

Thanks!