Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 22 May 2005 20:08, askar ... wrote: If I'm not wrong we can put Gentoo, Slackware and LFS distros on the same line - I mean they're all source based distros. As far as I know Slackware there is no emerge-like tools - I have to do everything manually. Slackware is not a

[gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread askar ...
Dear everybody! I have one topic to discuss. I'm not native speaker in english, but I will try. My first linux was Debian. I began using it in 1999 in fall, just because my senior course mate was using it. After that for me it was interesting to install several distros: Mandrake, Miracle, Turbo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
hum.. well portage compiles/makes/makes installs for you and keeps a database. but considering that compiling by hand isn't such a big deal, think of emerge/portage like just a tool that does ./configure;make;make install for you. On 5/22/05, askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear everybody!

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 22 May 2005 21:18:02 +0300 Ivan Lucian Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | well portage compiles/makes/makes installs for you and keeps a | database. but considering that compiling by hand isn't such a big | deal, think of emerge/portage like just a tool that does | ./configure;make;make

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Mon May-23-2005 at 12:08:18 AM +0600, askar ... said: [...] apt-get-like comfortable tools? That was my second question. What you recommend for those, who would like to learn linux from fundamentals? In order to do so, I think, learner has to do everything manually. I haven't installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major written about Slackware ...if you need help with your Linux box, find a Slackware user. A Slackware user is more likely to fix the problem than a user familiar with any other distribution Is it true? well Slackware is the distribution