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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: cheese on 21 May 2004, 00:36

Title: Gentoo and wineX?
Post by: cheese 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
Title: Gentoo and wineX?
Post by: insomnia on 21 May 2004, 01:12
quote:
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.   ;)

[ May 20, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]

Title: Gentoo and wineX?
Post by: cheese 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