John Coder wrote:
I have been reading most of the emails sent to this list for the past couple of days because I plan to start my first attempt at installing my gentoo system. Is there any addvice from those who have completed this recently? It will be an amd 800 and I have been running suse for the past year with great success, and I have tried Feddora core 1 and previous versions of redhat.
Thanks John Coder
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Thank you for choosing Gentoo. I personally cannot imagine using any other distro. My peice of advice is that while it is mighty tempting to have the USE flags in make.conf extend 3 screens, you really shouldn't. Not all programs are completely compatible with every use flag, and this may give you some compile problems. Keep them simple.
If you are going to use KDE (I recommend KDE for the first linux user) all you really need is USE="qt kde -gnome"
If you will be using GNOME you really only need USE="-qt -kde gnome gtk"
As well, follow the documentation very carefully. It is sometimes easier to click the links after you finish each step as opposed to scrolling.
Enjoy Gentoo! Ian
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