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cheese

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Gentoo and wineX?
« on: 21 May 2004, 00:36 »
so im thinking about getting gentoo, because i just dont like the operating systems ive installed so far, so im wondering, does wineX work on gentoo? because i dont see gentoo listed on winehq downloads..  i just want to play some games and have a good os

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Gentoo and wineX?
« Reply #1 on: 21 May 2004, 01:12 »
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Originally posted by blackh@t:
so im thinking about getting gentoo, because i just dont like the operating systems ive installed so far, so im wondering, does wineX work on gentoo? because i dont see gentoo listed on winehq downloads..  i just want to play some games and have a good os


It's even very easy in gentoo.
You can emerge WineX and also some premade nvidia-kernels for it.

PS: Installing Gentoo is rather difficult for beginners.
Good luck.   ;)

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Gentoo and wineX?
« Reply #2 on: 21 May 2004, 14:02 »
well, i tried, i got as far as the tar files but i kept getting errors when trying to install the package 3. So im goign to say my cd was crappy or something, well i have another one so im going to try that tommorow, but right now im just using suse. so hopefully i will have gentoo by tommorrow   :D