On 2008-12-23, Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Half the fun of Gentoo is knowing that you're kinda on your > own.
I find the opposite to be true: I'm much _less_ on my own with Gentoo that I was with any other distro. There's a Gentoo guide or howto for almost everything I've tried to do (some of of it pretty obscure). I've found the documentation for Gentoo is far more complete, accurate, and up-to-date than for RedHat/Mandrake, Suse, Debian, or Ubuntu. I've been running Gentoo for years, and I'm still amazed and how complete and up-to-date the guides are. Just yesterday I used the Bluetooth guide to get my new mobile phone paired with my IBM Thinkpad. Every step was completely and accurately explained and had an example listing. When I used to google for help on problems with Mandrake or Ubuntu, all I would find were postings on those ghastly "web forums" that were often several years old and did nothing but confirm that other people couldn't get X to work either. Those postings were usually answered by people who didn't understand the problem and proffered incorrect or irrelevant suggestions. Rarely were real solutions found, and if they were they were out of date and no longer applicable. For the rare occasion when there's not a detailed guide or howto, I've always gotten very prompt and accurate help from the mailing list. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I just remembered at something about a TOAD! visi.com