080423 Net Warrior wrote: > Gentoo seems to be (my first 24 hours) a very robust system
Yes, it is very reliable & this list is usually helpful. > tried ubuntu, a mess That was my own reaction on the 1 occasion I tried it (smile). > I come from a freebsd land and gentoo has all I have in freebsd, > portage is what I like most, the way to be upto date with ports, > emerge does a good job, like portsnap/pkg_tools does for freebsd. IIRC Gentoo was based on FreeBSD, though it has developed a lot since. > The only thing I found weird is the installation, > the need to do all the stuff by hand, > just a basic install like bsd does ( 100 MB ) > and then install the rest fro the network would be nice, > I'm too lazy to do paritioning/swap/choot Think of it as like joining the Freemasons: the trial-by-fire of installing Gentoo keeps out the unfit (grin). I made 5 pp of notes when installing on my newly-built box 2007-10-xx , but now everything is working even better than after my 1st install 2003 . -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
