040226 Alejandro Escalante Medina wrote: > First of all, let me congratulate the developers > of what seems to be the most exciting linux distribution nowdays.
yes, it is & let's all of us repeat our thanx to the volunteer developers. > I'm a Linux user from long time ago, > when I started with Yggdrasil and Slackware > and kernel hadn't even reached version 1. well, you shdn't have any problems w Gentoo (grin). > I am a knowledgeable linux user, but I don't have too much spare time > to fiddle with a distribution that's too harsh on the user. Gentoo is not harsh on the user -- it's v elegantly organised -- & once you've got it installed sensibly, you don't need to fiddle w it. > Gentoo's configurability, abundance of packages > and the possibility of staying v upto date seems v attractive to me. yes, all that & it really is a meta-distro, so you install what you want & keep it as upto-date or not as you want. > Maybe Gentoo is a nice distro to try kernel 2.6 ;) cb. the one thing you need to do carefully is installing Gentoo: it's not difficult, but you need to read the dox (they're v good) & pay attention to each step as you do it; allow a free weekend. then make sure you read the other dox & esp how Portage works. after that, you shd have few problems & there's lots of friendly advice both here & via the huge forum site. of course, it helps to have a reasonably upto-date machine & broadband. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
