Re: [9fans] First-timer help

["Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507190957300.18527@enigma.lanl.gov>, "Ronald G. Minn
ich" writes:
>I keep thinking about gentoo, since I really still like freebsd better and
>gentoo reminds me of the freebsd ports collection. There are days I miss
>from my old job which involved a lot of FreeBSD work ...

It just so happens that I'm using a laptop with gentoo and
I'm running Plan 9 with xen on it.  The reason I tried
gentoo was much like your motivation.

I do agree somewhat with the other comments about it.  It
just seems to be less unplesant than the other distributions.
The recompile pain on update isn't as bad as one would
expect.  One of the things I do on Friday mornings at work
is to start an update in one window.  While it's running,
I do other stuff and it rarely takes longer than some of
my other tasks.  Even when something like mozilla gets updated,
it's generally done before I get back from lunch.

One thing I've seen with the Linux-xen-Plan 9 combo is
the laptop running a bit hot.  For reasons I haven't
figured out, the Plan 9 domain gets constant CPU time
even when it's idle.  Even the load monitor in Plan 9
says that the load average is about 0.5.  I kind of
hoped that this was just an artifact of the first cut
and that it might disappear with the xen v3 port.  Is
that a vain hope?

Thanks,
BLS