KDE Multimedia finished about an hour ago (yes, it took a day and a half!). Now onto KDE Addons then KDE EDU and then KDE Utils... then KDE is out of the way and the rest should be relatively fast by comparison! It's on package 265/352!

*Update*
Onto KDE Edu now (268/352)... one of the C++ source files took 12 hours to complete and used 212MB of RAM+swap at one point! Once you start to use more memory than you actually have on one process things start to get very slow. It has to continually swap to do anything so CPU usage was only around 1-2% while memory usage was around 70%.

Just KDE Utils left after this from the KDE suite... then back onto normal C source - then I get the fun task of making sure it all works!

*Update 2*
A thought occurs... I hope people realise that in order to use 2.6, they WILL need to format their hard drive if they have EVER used kernel 2.4 on a FatX system (that means if they have EVER installed Gentoox previously, a format will be needed) before being able to even install Gentoox Home v4.0.!

*Update 3*
Package 349/352 (Firefox 1.0.1). This one could take quite a while!

*Update 4*
ALL COMPILING IS DONE! It took 9 days 7 hours and 24 minutes to complete... but it's done! I'm backing up the rootfs NOW - theres no way I want to have to do that again! ... Woo! It boots up fine - no errors. The only thing that seems to need "fixing" is the gdm theme - its reverted back to the Gentoo one.

*Update 5*
Some good news and some bad news... First, the good news. Home v4.0 seems to be ready - I'm surprised that no changes were actually needed despite all of the new software packages that were installed. However, the bad news is that the FatX driver is absolutely unacceptable. After two hours of trying to install from stardust it had only reached 69%. Theres absolutely no way it can be released like this so I'm going to wait for an update from Gimli to see if he's managed to get anything sorted out. The only good news is that I wont have to recompile EVERYTHING again (since this doesnt affect anyone but me, I'm sure that most of you dont care)... all I'll need to do is transplant the kernel and the kernel source into the distributions.