On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree > with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora > and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off > far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend > Gentoo to a noob unless they where just as geeky as I. I would rather see > normal people use distros like Mandriva and Linspire then graduate to Gentoo > when and if they are ready than to have them start at Gentoo then get pissed > off at their own inability to make the thing work and go back to Windoze. > Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth. > > -Mike >
I disagree. I think we should pit people first against OpenBSD, then FreeBSD, then Gentoo Linux, then Debian, then SuSE, then Fedora/Mandrake... which ever one they manage to install on the first try (of course, following a manual) should be they one they start from..... Of course, a sadistic bastard like myself (and since I am speaking from experience, probably also masochistic) should have no say in this matters. q= I kid of course. I have had at least UserLand experience with RedHat and Solaris before I installed a *nix system on my own computer. With a manual in hand, even the BSDs were quite easy to set up. Unfortunately a BIOS bug in my IBM Thinkpad means that openbsd killed it for good (or at least until a complete system wipe). But seriously, I don't see really problems with n00bs using Gentoo as a starter distro, so long as the said n00bs knows the power of google... Best, W -- Once you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 3 days, 23:45 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
