On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:04 PM, <ny6...@gmail.com> wrote: > And yet the documentation is clear enough for anyone to follow along. Which > leads me to my next point: the Gentoo documentation is far and away the best > of any distro I have tried. Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of > accolades for his efforts. > > Terry
This doesn't get pointed out enough. I started out on Mandrake myself and as soon as I ran into a problem, there was such a drastic learning curve, dealing with RPMs was horrendous at the time, it just wasn't worth it to me to dig to find what was below the pretty layer when the pretty layer didn't cut it. Then I used Slackware, which was great for me, did exactly what I wanted when I asked and absolutely nothing I didn't ask for... but it wasn't until I jumped into LFS that I really learned a great deal about *how* Linux actually works. Gentoo is the only place I've found comparable documentation to LFS, and even when dealing with other distros I find myself relying on Gentoo and LFS documentation more *each* than all others combined. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
