Terry Eck wrote: > I've been a SuSE user for several years now currently running 10.0. > I'm interested in giving gentoo a try with the object of converting > from SuSE to gentoo. I've been looking at this list for a couple of > weeks and have determined that there may be a steep learning curve > on my part converting. Any words of advice on getting up to speed > using gentoo before I install it. > > Thanks for any advice you might be able to give me. > > Terry Eck >
Just one word: PRAY! ..I'm joking ;-) I would say you should be filled with patience - compiling the packets on your machine takes a lot of time and may be it is annoying for one who is used to just get the binaries and decompress them. The initial installation is the hardest part in this respect because it takes a long time before the GUI is ready. After this point compiling is not an issue - you may do whatever you please while emerge does its job. Everything else is just like on every modern distro. Most of the time it is OK but there are also problems now and then. The first time I tried Gentoo and didn't burn my bridges to turn back: I left my Slackware alone and installed Gentoo on a different HDD. A few months later the Slackware was gone. Now I won't change Gentoo for any other distro. Go forward and give a try! -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
