On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:57, you wrote: > Forget Gentoo IMHO, unless you are very patient and very skilled.
I'm neither, yet I find that Gentoo gives me everything I need from a Linux install. Now that Gentoo has all the popular application programs available in binary form, and the genkernel script to build the kernel for you, the only skill needed is the ability to read and understand the install instructions at:- http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml These instructions are somewhat longwinded, but do explain in excruciating detail what you have to do. Just follow them and you will end up with a Gentoo Linux installed. The patience needed is that required to go and have lunch while the kernel and modules are built for you. Installing or updating a package is as simple as typing/writing:- emerge package-name at a console. I maintain that if you cannot do that then you would not be able to use the package anyway and really should not be let loose anywhere near a computer in the first place. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
