[javaJake]

We've come a long way from where we started. Six months ago, neither viridior or I had any idea of what we were getting ourselves into. Nevertheless, we survived, and in the meantime we've created our first truly usable Gentoo release.

If someone could boot it up and play with it and make sure the essentials work (emerge can build new packages, internet works, and so on) we'd be extremely grateful. We want someone to pick through it like the average Gentoo user might, so knowledge of Gentoo would be helpful. If Gentoo experience is lacking, that isn't a big deal. Simply trying to emerge (install) a package we haven't already installed or pre-built would be great!

So, whoever wants to try it out can get a copy of the latest release here. Since the latest is 0.0.3, you probably just want to go straight to 0.0.3's page. Pandora testers will want to select the plain 0.0.3 "base" variant, while BeagleBoard users might want to use the "base-beagle" variant. Be sure to read the "Install a Pre-built Image" page for installation instructions.

We're looking for feedback on your entire experience! Was the website easy to use? Where might we improve? How about the image itself? Are there any tweaks we should've included? Everything is still under heavy development, so it will be relatively easy to change things now rather than later.

Here's a big thanks to the testers who use precious time out of their day to test our images! We really appreciate it!

[Shaun.]

Will it be able to play all the Pandora games on Gentoo like we do on Angstrom or will it use different software?

This post has been edited by Shaun.: 11 June 2009 - 12:40 PM

[viridior]

Will be be able to play all the Pandora games on Gentoo like we do on Angstrom or will it use different software?

They should be binarily compatible. If the games are statically compiled then they should be able to run as-is. Also, we will be providing recompiled binaries for many of the community-brewed games by adding them into our community overlay which means that you should be able to do a 'emerge <wanted app/game>' and it will download and install (almost identical to apt-get or opkg). We will be adding libpnd also to our desktop variant so our Gentoo Pandora OS should act fairly similar to the Angstrom Official OS. Truthfully we haven't ruled out much of anything so any suggestions are greatly welcome.

[Count Tuxula]

Hey, that really sounds cool. Will there be a way to use ones desktop pc to help compiling, with distcc or something similar? I guess compiling the whole system on the pandora itself will take quite a while.

[viridior]

Hey, that really sounds cool. Will there be a way to use ones desktop pc to help compiling, with distcc or something similar? I guess compiling the whole system on the pandora itself will take quite a while.

Actually, we have already done a lot of that work for you. You can follow our guide here:
http://gentoo.openpa...ler_Environment
and here:
http://gentoo.openpa...hp/Distcc_Setup

The gentoo-pandora-devs have done a bit of native compiling to get some benchmarks and compiling on the beagleboard (with half the ram of the pandora) wasn't that bad at all if you have to do it. http://dev.gentoo.or.../buildtimes.xml

We have binary repos available also:
http://bazaar.launch...head%3A/native/
http://tinderbox.dev...ded/beagle/All/

You can find good knowledge at http://gentoo.openpandora.org or visit us in IRC at (FreeNode) #gentoo-pandora

EDIT: Grammatical changes

This post has been edited by viridior: 11 June 2009 - 01:40 PM

[javaJake]

I also want to try and get libpxml (and software that uses it) to work with Gentoo, so that users of libpxml-based software can use official sources and pxml package managers to keep that up-to-date, rather than relying on us and our limited manpower to keep the overlay viridior mentioned updated.

As for compiling on your own PC, you can do that now, and viridior showed you how, but cross-compiling can be difficult and buggy, depending on how well the software was written. You can find some common annoyances documented here: http://gentoo.openpa...Common_Problems

This post has been edited by javaJake: 11 June 2009 - 02:12 PM

[may88]

Good work guys. Just waiting for Craigix to send me a Pandora and I'll load it up. <insert 2mth gag> Best you get on with it without me.

[kingoddball]

Hi Everyone,
Has anyone tested this yet? (BB)
Does this have a windowing system, or just a Bash shell (or some such Shell)?

Without being rude or insulting, but has anyone looked into porting Fedora? I know that Fedora are trying an ARM port, but I have not seen any updates on this.

[dflemstr]

kingoddball, on 20 November 2009 - 10:33 AM, said:

Hi Everyone,
Has anyone tested this yet? (BB)
Does this have a windowing system, or just a Bash shell (or some such Shell)?

Without being rude or insulting, but has anyone looked into porting Fedora? I know that Fedora are trying an ARM port, but I have not seen any updates on this.

You can install anything you want in Gentoo, including KDE and Gnome (if you really want to). The default is a shell, though, as you say.

Fedora ARM is a finished port and will work for the Pandora, with some definition of "work". I'd like to use it, actually, but it might be too slow for my needs.

Also, don't gravedig.

[Gruso]

kingoddball, on 20 November 2009 - 07:33 PM, said:

Hi Everyone,
Has anyone tested this yet? (BB)
Does this have a windowing system, or just a Bash shell (or some such Shell)?

Without being rude or insulting, but has anyone looked into porting Fedora? I know that Fedora are trying an ARM port, but I have not seen any updates on this.

Dude, old threads, don't bump them.

FYI the project is now called Neuvoo. Get the latest info from the official Neuvoo site. :)

[x68000]

As Gruso stated, this is an outdated distro which has now been superseded by Neuvoo.

Thread closed, nothing to see here :rolleyes: