From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Feb 2 07:19:33 2010 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AfterLogic WebMail Pro PHP X-Originating-IP: 217.40.83.198 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: From: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk Cc: "mint" Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:14:48 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from Quoted-Printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o12CJXqG015764 So is this a new system ? I still ask why ? Just because Sparemint needs an update doesn't mean starting from scratch with a new unknown system. The same logic doesn't get applied to everything else. Why not dump GEM and start again !? It's like throwing your car away because it needs a service. I don't think there will be many people wiping their hard disc to try out gentoo. Peter ---- Original Message ---- From: Miro Kropacek To: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk Cc: "mint" Sent: Tue, Feb 2, 2010, 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT The gentoo website hints that it is just Linux, although like most linux things it's as clear as mud http://www.gentoo.org/The site tells about "Gentoo Linux", that's difference. Is Gentoo Mint just another distro ? Do we really need one ? It sounds like it is just a tarball at the moment, what's wrong with Easymint ? [...] The Sparemint website is looking a bit stale with no package updates in years and years. You've replied to yourself ;-) One big trouble with RPMs is their are pain in ass to cross compile. Personally, I don't do a shot without cross compiler nowadays -- so many libraries to compile / test / recompile and so much time saved... -- MiKRO / Mystic Bytes http://mikro.atari.org