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

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From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On Behalf
Of Karl Oelschlaeger
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 6:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Re: Gentoo: What's all the fuss about?

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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Not to mention, the help that people give you in the forum. If you have a
problem, chances are that someone else has had it too, and can steer you in
the right direction to solve it. I gotta say Gentoo freakin rocks. I know,
you probably can't tell that much of a diff. in run-times, maybe, maybe not,
but it definitely up'ed my knowledge of *nix just from the install of the
base system and WM, which is more than I can say for RH, SuSe, or even Slack
for that matter. You get absolutely nothing handed to you in this install,
and that's great. As you mentioned Karl, the online documentation is the
best around, aside from some wireless devices, anything *should* be a go.
Since coming to Gentoo, I haven't even considered going to any other flavor
*nix. I guess once you make your home, you don't want to move. Well, I guess
I can't really talk right now though, I'm on my wife's Winbloze box while my
friend is hogging mine up playing Mahjongg. Peace!
Chris