Daniel da Veiga wrote:
The facts are:
- Internet is powerful.
- Gentoo and internet talk like friends.
- If you can read and surf the web, you can use almost any program
with a fair documentation and bit of geekness.
- Gentoo is widely documented.
- There's always us to point newbies to RTFM and/or search at Google
:) at the second mail they'll think better and search twice before
asking another question and try everything before asking us again.
In no time, you'll get a power user answering questions instead of
asking. That's evolution baby!
On 8/4/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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I agree 100%. Does any other distro have better forums and/or mailing
lists? I think not.
So many times I "emerge -uD world" and have something break. But guess
what? The
answer is only the Gentoo Forum away, cause some poor rascal or
rascalette has had the same
problem and usually has the solution. Gentooists Untie! er Unite
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