Jesús Guerrero wrote:
El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 14:19, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
Sebastián Magrà wrote:
Also, Gentoo is a great school. If you want to learn how a Linux system
works, and really want to learn about Unix systems, then Gentoo is the
best for you.
I don't get that argument. I didn't learn how Linux or Unix works with
Gentoo. I didn't even find my prior knowledge of Unix and Linux of much
use either. Typing "emerge package" and "dispatch-conf" doesn't offer me
much knowledge. It's as simple as Debian in this regard.
If I wanted a "learn Unix" distro, I would be using Slackware :P
Gentoo forces you to use linux in the sense that you need to
do all the work by yourself to install it. What you describe is
just the regular update/install process, which is simple enough
as you said.
It was very easy for me. The first I came in tough with Gentoo was with
the 2007 DVD. I booted, double clicked the installer icon, clicked
"next" a few times with checking some tickboxes too, and then emerged -e
system and world and the packages I need.
After that I was asking myself where the difficulty lies many people
refer to when it comes to installing Gentoo.
Seriously, I didn't learn anything. Maybe CLFAGS and USE flags.
