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HOWTO: INSTALL GENTOO 2006.0, GNOME, KDE AND XFCE THE EASY WAY.
Interested in a walkthru to help you through a Gentoo Linux 2006 installation (with KDE Gnome and Xfce)?
Then click here:
http://linux.coconia.net/
There is a page on installing Windows on a spare partition of your harddrive.
There is also instructions on HOWTO access and write to Windows XP/2000 (formatted with the NTFS) from Linux.
Access to Windows by Captive-FUSE and NTFS-FUSE are compared.
There is also code for JAVASCRIPT MOVIES (and a few to watch).
Also has a section on how to REMIX YOUR 14 Debian CDs as 2 DVDs.
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looks like a good enough read to make this a sticky (hint to any mods reading  ), but i must point out that this method will NOT optimise gentoo for your system, which somewhat defeats the purpose of a d.i.y based distribution. if its fast reliable processing and stability your after, i'd advise against the above. instead print out a copy of the gentoo handbook specific for your architecture, make a cup of tea, and sit back for a few days... well ok, maybe one cup of tea won't be enough  . i'd also advise to do a manual kernel compilation for a more complete optimisation, and given the handbook makes such a good job at explaining the procedure for this, there's really no complication at all.
also, the above guide says the following:
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The KDE desktop is absent from the CD. In order to keep you from using the KDE desktop, the customary second packages-CD, is not provided. As with the Gentoo 2005.1 CD, Gentoo has deliberately made it difficult for you to install the KDE desktop.
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...this is not true. the author of this article has just wrongly interpreted what the gentoo dev's have done, thats all. the kde developers ship kde as around 19 (including arts) large collections of packages, such as kdelibs, kdebase, kdeartwork, kdenetwork, etc. so usually when you install kde, you always wind up with a crap load of packages you don't actually want. for example, if you want xmms you have to install the kdemultimedia package, which means all other softwares within this package will be installed too, and possibly never used. this is completely against the gentoo way!
to work around this problem gentoo have come up with a rather clever alternative (and one i believe to be proprietary to gentoo at the mo), split ebuild packages. gentoo take the official packages and, well, split them. all individual softwares and libraries are repackaged as split ebuild source archives, with kdebase-startkde being the only required package - hell if you add -arts to your make.conf use variable, you don't even need to bring in the arts package! this means kde can be installed as minimally as required, greatly enhancing system performance and reducing bloat. the downside is that there's now over 200 kde packages constantly being updated. and thus adding them to cd would be somewhat difficult.
admittedly gentoo do currently offer the original packages too, but these packages are no longer officially recommended and will not be offered as of kde 4. with this in mind, its no surprise the gentoo dev's chose not to distribute them with the packages cd any more.
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