On Monday, 23 January 2006 22:19, lnxg33k wrote: > It's always good to know your system, but the entire installation process > is rather painless (minus my experience with Grub which isn't architecture > dependent). You'll want to learn more about the CPU if you plan on > developing for it, but as a user you should be fine. You'll learn a lot > simply by using the environment and reading up when you can or run into > problems. Anyway, good luck with your install whichever distro you decide > to use.
I've chosen a *big* harddisk so I'll probably go for all three to see what they do. However, the main reason why I did not switch to Gentoo is I was lazy - my double Athlon has been running Mepis for over two years with little changes so I justed sticked to running it so. Changing my main machine seems the good time to switch and get more control over the system. I just tested emerge --update --deep world on my 32bit Gentoo and all went well (I just had to set the Displamanager back to kdm by hand) and while I prefer apt-get to SuSE's rpms, nothing beats emerge. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- [email protected] mailing list
