Gentoo - why?
Why? Because I want to play with bluetooth, and I found a howto based on the Gentoo operating system.
So I dig out an old box and go to install Gentoo. It can’t be that hard can it?
Five attempts later and I still can’t get more than a dozen steps through the quick install (?) guide, and as a last resort I post a message on the forum.
Almost instantly get a reply helpfully pointing out that my AMD K6-2 processor needs an i586 stage3 not the i686 as in the instructions.
So I’m further along a tortuous road, but there’s still a long way to go before I even get a bare box that boots itself - as I’m writing this the kernel is compiling and I have no idea if I’ve got all the modules I need configured.
Don’t know what the odds are of getting anything that I can achieve my (limited) goals on - I’ll report back.
