Linux Class at Communiversity

[Brian Kelsay]

>>> This class  will cover a complete Linux installation from scratch 
>>>and lots of vocabulary and schemas. 
>>> 
>>> What distribution?
>> 
>> I will be doing a Gentoo GRP installation on the overhead because 
>> it's educational in nature. Perhaps not as educational as a Slackware 
>> install but it still lies within the required time constraints.
>
>About them "time constraints": Gentoo is a compiled distro.  
>
>The class is two hours long.  
>
>How will Gentoo compile in two hours without advanced time travel
>technology?  :)

Gentoo allows Stage 2 and Stage 3 installs where you use some or all pre-compiled programs, but you 
lose some of the reason to use a compiling distro.  Stage 2 has GCC and glibc and I believe a 
kernel precompiled, basically enough for a command line.  Stage 3 has everything necessary for a 
X/KDE/Gnome GUI precompiled and ready to go.  you have to pick your architecture during install, so 
it's partially optimized.  I would assume that when you want to upgrade various programs that you 
can compile at upgrade time.   Don't just make blind assumptions with out reading the fine 
documentation/manual.

Brian Kelsay