Blog opened

So this is it - my first blog. As everyone could guess this blog is about how far I am getting with building an Gentoo system completely with icc. I want to share my results for future reference and for those of you who are this much willing to experiment with Linux like me.
How long I can keep posting or how frequently it will be is another subject on which I can't make any promises.

I already set up two virtual machines using VMWare Player which contain identical running base systems of Gentoo in the current version. On the first machine (gentoo-icc) I am going to replace all packages with their icc-compiled versions. This includes such "basic" packages as glibc (which is highly depending on gcc) and also open-vm-tools (needed because of VMWare - which contains much inline assembly and other stuff).

My patches and ebuilds are held in an separate overlay which I will try to publish and update permanently.

I am not going to compile the Kernel with icc at this point as there is already an project covering this subject (www.linuxdna.com). But because linuxdna is not really up-to-date and their support is not the best I will have to get to this subject relatively soon.

After the base system is fully icc-compiled and functional I want to take a look at X11, it's video drivers and any software that goes beyond this point. But this could take a very long time.

I only got one note for you left before I start posting my first results:
Any use of data (patch/ebuild/variables ...) provided by this page is at own risk.
I will test all my patches but I cannot guarantee anything.
If your system crashes or you lose data because of anything provided on this site don't blame me ;-)