Sorry again and againg. In subject line, read LFS instead LWS. askar
On 5/23/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, in the subject line I mean "LSF" instead "LWS". > > askar > > On 5/23/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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, > > Vine, Red Hat, Suse, Slackware. I didn't use them for a long time - I > > just installed them for fun, but trying to find my own distro. Before > > Gentoo, I used to think that Debian is better (not the best - because > > I'm not good at linux to say which is the best) than other distros. > > One year ago I tried gentoo and I feeled that maybe this is what I was > > looking for. Even know I use gentoo at home. I don't use linux at work > > - linux is my hobby. In the mean time I still try other distros to see > > how do they look like, but not so often as before. Saying again, I > > don't have strong knowledge to say which is the best linux for me, so > > I estimate the best linux for my only basing on the easy-to-use > > distro. Of course, this is a matter of taste, any person has his own > > favorite distro. In gentoo I liked the portage and emerge concept, > > that I can build my own system and make it for my hardware (if I > > install from stage 1). But, on the other hand emerge does for us > > installations, compilations, dependency checks, etc - we do not > > compile by hand. 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. Here at > > 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? This is one > > question. Also, it seems most of current gentoo users had experience > > with other distro, so they have rich experience in linux, and this > > help them to solve linux-generic problems. In my case, I would like to > > learn linux as deep as possible. Is it ok if I use emerge-like, > > 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 LFS distro before, so I don't know is it like > > Slackware or not, but as the name says, this is "linux from sratch", > > like gentoo... > > I think, answers to this thread will be interesting not only for me, > > but also for many ML participants. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > askar > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
