MaximumPC
October 26th, 2006Well interesting enough, I popped open the Holiday 2006 issue of Maximumpc and see a article about linux. I assume its going to be about Ubuntu or redhat or something common. Quite the surprise to see that its a article about livecd’s and the three flavors they choose happen to be:
Custom Gentoo Goodness
Krunchy Knoppix
Outrageous Ubuntu
The talk about gentoo is of course about performance and the fact that its not for the faint of heart. The performance talk is about the fact that you can custom-compile every component of the os so its tuned to your processor. It also talks about portage being the heart of gentoo’s ability to the customization of the distribution.
The cd and distro talks about the features for Gentoo as such:
Boots from cd
Easy hard drive install
Simple package management
Compiles for your hardware
It’s interesting to read about the distro that I work on in a magazine I really enjoy. I’ll try and scan the pages later for everyone to view.
October 26th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Maybe they’re an okay publication, if generally Windows-centric. But I have to say that their books are utter dreck. I confess . . . I . . . (hangs head in shame) had a copy of their 2005 book on building the ultimate custom PC open on my worktable for reference’s sake while building my new machine; I needed something that had some info on what order to do things in. It mostly succeeded in that effort, though it forgot about “little” things like PSU installation, and had some truly terrible BIOS optimization advice, and had some bad graphics, fan, and memory recommendations. Plus it was solely focused after hardware stuff to get XP up and running; bah.
So their durable-format printed material may be lacking, but I can accord the mass-market magazine some small measure of non-bleh-ness (upgrading them to meh status) because they mention Gentoo.
October 27th, 2006 at 7:13 am
Hmmm, that had to be weird to read. I wanna read it….. Hmmm I see a trip to town today. LOL!
I haven’t read that particular mag since the early 90’s. Oh… more like 93. Wow!