> > I was comparing the installation instructions for Gentoo with that of > other Linuxes. I currently have Libranet, SuSE, two KNOPPIXes, UBUNTU, > installed and of course some decisions, such as you mention, were needed > but not to the extent that Gentoo requires.
So you compared Gentoo, a source based distribution to a slew of binary based distributions? But you didn't compare Gentoo to Rock (source based), or Linux From Scratch (source based)? > They didn't have a 100 > page set of microinstructions and rhetoric All I had was two sheets of > paper for each of these distros.. I'm not claiming that Gentoo can be > installed without requiring ANY decisions but surely, > the installation of a basic workable Gentoo that then could tailored to > whatever you want, could be made as simple as other Linux distros, > couldn't it? > Perhaps you should be comparing VidiaLinux to the binary based dists? If you know how you want a system set up, then the 100 pages goes pretty quick - you know what to skip. But, personally, I prefer setting things up with some of the non-mainstream variants of packages. And it still takes just an hour to get the system up and running. Gentoo is not hard to install. But, my install is not your install. I run 7 different Gentoo based systems and each one has a different install. But they are all easy to maintain. Bob - -- [email protected] mailing list
