Plan for Rick Overman
by Rick Overman · 03/02/2004 (11:12 am) · 7 comments
Talk is cheap, so I finally took the plunge a couple weeks ago and nuked my new Windows-XP eMachine and installed Gentoo on it (my favorite Linux distro ). When installing Gentoo you can take the easy route and install precompiled binaries or you can take the rollup the sleeves and get dirty and compile everything yourself road. Of course I choose to get down in the mud and compile totally tweaked kernel tailored for my hardware. :) (was there really any choice?)
It took no time at all to install all the software I am used to using. Mozilla FireFox (browser), Mozilla ThunderBird (email), gaim (chat), jEdit (programmers text editor), Eclipse (IDE), OpenOffice (boring necessary office stuff) and finally SmartCVS. What I realized was almost every single app I had grown to love on Windows IS a Linux app.
I still have a few things to work out, I need to get my sound card and my thumb drive working. I also need to get setup so I can compile old glibc2.2.x binaries for distributing games. Ack, what a hassle. But otherwise I have been using this new Gentoo installation full time for the last two weeks and have not needed to look back at windows for anything. Freedom!
This now makes the second dedicated Linux desktop in our office (not including our numerous linux servers). GarageGames is a major supporter of Macintosh and Linux platforms. Our office is an IT managers nightmare, no two machines or OS's are alike, none, zero, zilch. G3's, G4's, G5's, AMD, Intel, Dell's, eMachines, Compaq's, Laptops, Trinitrons, Flat Screens, Gentoo, Suse, XP, 2000, 98, OSX. The only common thread is they all share data over our Gentoo file server. Believe it or not this craziness is by design, the Torque runs on each and every machine in the office. :)
Let the fun begin.
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It took no time at all to install all the software I am used to using. Mozilla FireFox (browser), Mozilla ThunderBird (email), gaim (chat), jEdit (programmers text editor), Eclipse (IDE), OpenOffice (boring necessary office stuff) and finally SmartCVS. What I realized was almost every single app I had grown to love on Windows IS a Linux app.
I still have a few things to work out, I need to get my sound card and my thumb drive working. I also need to get setup so I can compile old glibc2.2.x binaries for distributing games. Ack, what a hassle. But otherwise I have been using this new Gentoo installation full time for the last two weeks and have not needed to look back at windows for anything. Freedom!
This now makes the second dedicated Linux desktop in our office (not including our numerous linux servers). GarageGames is a major supporter of Macintosh and Linux platforms. Our office is an IT managers nightmare, no two machines or OS's are alike, none, zero, zilch. G3's, G4's, G5's, AMD, Intel, Dell's, eMachines, Compaq's, Laptops, Trinitrons, Flat Screens, Gentoo, Suse, XP, 2000, 98, OSX. The only common thread is they all share data over our Gentoo file server. Believe it or not this craziness is by design, the Torque runs on each and every machine in the office. :)
Let the fun begin.
Click to view a fullsize Screenshot:
#3
03/03/2004 (10:14 am)
I found that getting dual setup for libc libs isn't very easy. I tried getting it to work a year ago to help compile the rw libs. The easiest options are to either have an extra scaled down gentoo partition to boot up to whenever you need to compile for libc2.2, or use vmware to emulate another gentoo environment.
#4
03/03/2004 (10:33 am)
Yacine: how about just chroot-ing?
#5
03/04/2004 (3:42 am)
Yeah, that might work...It's been a really long time, and I remember messing around with chroot. I think I had an unresolved issue with it, but I really can't recall. 
#6
03/04/2004 (2:00 pm)
I knew I could turn him to the dark side from the onset...
#7
I just apt-getted the rest of the software (gcc, make, etc) and compiled from there, pretty easy.
03/08/2004 (7:31 am)
I used to install a woody distro in my home dir using a debian tool that did just that, install a base system in a dir. Then i chrooted into it an voila, had a woddy system with glibc 2.2.I just apt-getted the rest of the software (gcc, make, etc) and compiled from there, pretty easy.
Torque Owner Adib Murad
Is anyone in the office setting up a Mac-OS like you are doing with Linux?