Mandrake 10.1 Community released

**jro** · 09-16-2004, 09:00 PM

I have always felt a bond with Mandrake since they were my first distro I used. They essentially got me started into Linux. Congrats on another release.

**ZennouRyuu** · 09-16-2004, 11:50 PM

jro, thats kinda how I feel about slackware, even though I have moved on to a different Distro, Slack is still the shit.

**kungfuramone9** · 09-17-2004, 04:24 PM

ZennouRyuu, what do you run now? I thought *all* of the moderators were slack-heads.

**ZennouRyuu** · 09-17-2004, 04:44 PM

I am from now until forever (aka when I find somthing better

) a very dedicated Gentoo user, I have been with it since ~v1 (a few years now) and have watched it and helped it grow. I love gentoo, which also ties into the image down in my signiture. I LOVE COMPILING!

**kungfuramone9** · 09-19-2004, 04:50 PM

Hmmm...so, drop some education on those of us that have never used gentoo. I thought gentoo used that whole emerge thang as its package management. How does it lend itself to you compiler nuts?

**comtux** · 09-19-2004, 10:36 PM

SLACK SLACK!!!

**maccorin** · 09-20-2004, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by kungfuramone9

Hmmm...so, drop some education on those of us that have never used gentoo. I thought gentoo used that whole emerge thang as its package management. How does it lend itself to you compiler nuts?

emerge d/l's the source, and compiles, then installs for you... handling deps

not really the same thing as doing all the deps yourself...

**jro** · 09-20-2004, 01:33 PM

SInce I started messing around with Gentoo, I have found the make.conf file to be very useful and enlightening. I can set flags in compiling I didn't even know existed. Like compiling without certain features to save on space, it standardaizes your compiles so you only get what you want every time you compile.

I am really enjoying it. Tho it did fail when I was trying to install Enlightenmetnt this weekend. I am still not sure what to do in the case of it failing. My current workaround has been to just forget about what ever it was I wanted to install and try to find something similar. :-P

**ZennouRyuu** · 09-20-2004, 07:50 PM

jro: If you have been playing around in make.conf enlightenment can fail due to over agressive CFLAGS. Try setting

CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

(Assuming you have a P4)

If you have an Athlon try

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

Those flags are almost always 100% safe so they are a good place to start, you may also consider posting the last 20-30 lines to the gentoo forums.

**jro** · 09-20-2004, 08:50 PM

From what I have seen so far the Gentoo forums are about the most helpful forums I have ever been on (Besides LinuxFoo :P). Amazing really. I asked, what I thought, was as stoopid questions and within a couple of hours I had 3 very helpful responses.

I actually have a AMD K6-2 400MHz processor. Thanks for the tip on compiling enlightenment. I will check those out tonight and post what I have.