[nflug] Building A Linux Box

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

There are other issues with Gentoo. Some one has to create an ebuild for 
a software package to be entered into portage. Therefore not everything 
is cutting edge. Other programs are masked when there are bugs or 
unresolved conflicts. Waiting for certain programs to get unmasked can 
be undesirable. I'm still waiting for Mozilla-Sunbird to be unmasked. I 
love Gentoo none the less. I would also like to try Sorcerer Linux as 
well as Linux from scratch (LFS).
	I would suggest visiting Tom's Hardware Guide at
	http://www.tomshardware.com/
for information regarding what to use. Also visit 
http://www.linuxdevices.com for issues that effect whether a device will 
work in Linux.
Just my two bits.
Bob

nolf wrote:
> Hey Chris,
> 
> If you are building everything from scratch and want to understand the 
> proper working at hardware
> level, I would say you go for  source compilation from **scratch** .
> 
> The distribution I would suggest is 'gentoo'
> 
> Now, debian installation as standalone is not very easy, unless of 
> course you go for
> a debian based distro whether be ubuntu, knoppix, kubuntu....
> 
> portage is to gentoo what apt is to debian. So you would pretty much end up
> getting all the benefits of apt and also be able to compile everything 
> fom source -  which of course would
> make the most efficient use of your cpu cycles.
> 
>  I think that gentoo's repositories have much more stuff than the deb 
> repositories (as you would have thought, you have to wait
> before someone deb compiles and puts in the repository)
> 
> However, gentoo  is source based, so you would get bleeeding edge 
> packages pretty fast
> Rest, I would say to make sure the chipsets you are using are 
> compatible, or else you would have to
> find something that works.
> 
> But here in lies the pitfall, installing gentoo from source would mean 
> continous compilation from
> on a serious basis(considering you install gnome, kde, openoffice and 
> other usual stuff) would take almost a week or so
> 
> Incase you dont wanna do that then gentoo binaries are also available.
>  
> So, the fields open and the choice is yours.
> 
> ---
> hope is the quintessential human illusion... simultaneously the source 
> of your greatest strength
> and your greatest weakness
> 
> On 10/21/05, *Chris Crawford* <cpc5 at buffalo.edu 
> <mailto:cpc5 at buffalo.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     I would like to build a machine that would run Debian.  I have never put
>     together my own machine before, much less try to build one that would
>     support Linux reasonably well.
> 
>     My main goals for putting together my own machine include a desire
>     learn
>     more about how computers work at the hardware level, a desire to learn
>     how Linux works together with hardware, and the satisfaction of having
>     put together my own machine.
> 
>     Does anyone have advice that would help me to avoid the pitfalls of
>     building a machine that supports Linux (specifically Debian)?
> 
>     Are there any useful resources I should check out that will help me
>     learn more about computer hardware and building my own machine?
> 
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
> 
>     --Chris
> 
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