On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:16, brett holcomb wrote: > Or more correctly - knowledge they DON'T have. I've run > Caldera and RH and they hide it all under GUI admin stuff > and point and click. Unless you make a real effort to not > use the GUI stuff and learn you never really know what is > happening behind the GUI and hence don't have a real > understanding of what makes the distro tick. If you can't > point and click you're lost. I deliberately did NOT use > the GUIs - it was painful at first but when I installed > Gentoo I knew what was going on. Yes there was stuff I'd > forgotten but it came back. > > On 11 Mar 2003 20:06:58 +0000 > > "Louis C. Candell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >writes: > > > >Ive noticed many pre-existing Linux users having a hard > >time with a > >Gentoo install, and I contribute it to the existing > >knowledge they > >already have on Linux. This prior knowledge makes many > >skip over > >steps outlined (very easily and straightforward I might > >add) within > >the Install How-To, because "oh thats simple stuff."
Damn good point Brett. I've been playing with Linux for 3+ years. I did my first Gentoo install in late December '02. I've learned far more about Linux in 2 1/2 months that I did in the previour 3 years. Even my stupid questions are smarter :) -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
