[SATLUG] Re: Gentoo: What's all the fuss about?

[Paul S. Bains]

I didn't mean to slam Gentoo, I have just never had luck with it. I am a
programmer and am very fastidious about documentation, so yes, I did
read it. I just got frustrated because both the stage one and stage two
bombed out. Keep in mind the version I installed was a year ago (or
more), so it might be different today. I am still interested in Gentoo
because I like the concept of it, but I don't have another box to
install on, and I need my system for daily usage. Maybe someday!

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:10:57 -0500
Karl Oelschlaeger <karl at oelschlaeger.ws> wrote:

> Did you read the documentation?  Being an extreme newbie, I had never
> messed with Gentoo, and I had a working Stage-1 in two days. If you
> followed the documentation to the letter, it's almost impossible to
> not have a working installation. Gentoo has some of the best
> documentation I've ever seen. There is a fair bit of cruft for the
> different options, but it is very thorough. 
> 
> My 3 cents.
> Karl
> 
> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 17:18, Greg Willden wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:46:00 -0500, Paul S. Bains
> > <slacker at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> > > My nice, lean Slack box runs rather briskly, thank you...:-)
> > > 
> > 
> > Yeah.  I'll second that but for Debian.
> > I installed a few machines from the latest Knoppix and you've got a
> > great Debian system in 20 minutes.  I don't think the extra time
> > waiting for compiles is worth it.
> > 
> > I'll pass.
> > Greg Willden (trying out my Gmail account)
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