Funtoo for n8x0 and n900...
 

I never noticed before...but the recent post from august concerning Funtoo for n8x0/ n900 has me curious. Has anyone messed with funtoo lately? I'm curious about what does / doesn't work and how quick/ slow it is....considering I haven't seen much concerning user experiences ...

http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_Installation_on_ARM

Re: Funtoo for n8x0 and n900...
 

I've not tried it but running a source based distro on the N900, let alone N8x0 is not my idea of "fun". :D I wonder how many days it would take to do a base install.

I suppose it might be usable if you ran the install and emerges on a PC in a QEMU chroot but it would still be a pain in the arse.

Re: Funtoo for n8x0 and n900...
 

Ya...hehe...I thought since it is a source-based gentoo variant I imagined it wouldn't be any quicker than gentoo concerning the install...[sigh] I don't find installing source-based distros any more fun (mind...I do find it masochistically curious and intriguing of course :D) on a pc for that matter ...but I do wonder at the usability and issues (since none are really mentioned)...

Re: Funtoo for n8x0 and n900...
 

Hardly.
Before I bought a Cubieboard2 I recompiled pulseaudio for Easy Debian in a qemu VM on my i7-2700k and it took almost two days.
I believe Easy Debian on the N900 itself would have made it in about a day if the watchdog wouldn't have killed it.
On the Cb2 it takes about 3 hours.

Re: Funtoo for n8x0 and n900...
 

2 days seems a little long, would of thought it would have been quicker than the cubieboard but I suppose it depends on RAM and supported virtualisation features.

I imagine it would take the patience of a saint to run anything like funtoo on a day to day basis. 1.1ghz Duron running Gentoo from stage 1 or LFS install under Colinux, with about 128mb pc133 sd ram. Some packages (glibc, firefox) would take upwards of 12 hours. As a learning experience, it was good. Practicality wise, a nightmare. God forbid having to run emerge world.

Re: Funtoo for n8x0 and n900...
 

N8x0 and N900 are only listed as as devices under ARM flavours and there's nothing to indicate that Funtoo has even been tested on these devices. I couldn't find anything that suggests that there might be some optimisation specific to these devices so I'd be surprised if Funtoo was more usable than say Debian.