On Thursday 05 July 2007 02:40, Walter Dnes wrote: > I use Gentoo precisely because it's easy. I am not a programmer, and > cannot do a manual project. I rely on others' makefiles. My > "programming expertise" consists of... [snip . . .]
I echo Walter's comments on my use of Gentoo. However, I am not sure as others have argued that Gentoo keeps newbies away. Well not all newbies anyway. When I started using Gentoo back in 2003/04 my total experience in Linux was absolutely minimal. I had only booted Knoppix a few times. If it wasn't for the handbook, docs and of course the forums, I would have probably walked away defeated. Thankfully, Gentoo was a relatively painless and rewarding experience (despite that back then I was installing from a stage 1, and it was failing for a number of reasons). Having had a chance of experimenting with Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu I found SUSE the easiest to update/upgrade, but nothing compared with the ease of portage and its configuration options. I would probably disagree that Gentoo is a dying distro - would think of it more of a maturing distro like it was mentioned earlier. The natural evolution of Gentoo may be that portage hands over to paludis soon as a superior package management system, but who knows? -- Regards, Mick
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