I guess that depends on what version of Gentoo you're using. It's been a while since I tried the 2004.0 edition -- it didn't work right on AMD64 -- but in 1.4 I clearly remember the lame warning screen at startup that tells you that you must have devfs compiled into the kernel. The very same message is in Vidalinux.
It seemed to me that Vida was based off of 1.4 or perhaps an earlier version, given that the kernel and userland were so out of date. Oddly, the packages are quite new. The whole distro reeks of poor testing procedures; it needs to be cleaned up and managed more efficiently. Once that happens, it'll be a top-tier community developed desktop distribution.
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Re:devfs and udev in gentoo
Posted by: Jem Matzan on July 12, 2004 08:05 AMIt seemed to me that Vida was based off of 1.4 or perhaps an earlier version, given that the kernel and userland were so out of date. Oddly, the packages are quite new. The whole distro reeks of poor testing procedures; it needs to be cleaned up and managed more efficiently. Once that happens, it'll be a top-tier community developed desktop distribution.
-Jem
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