On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 22:18, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Gentoo requires a lot of reading before you dive in. > It's absolutely necessary to read and at least understand the outline of the > 96 page install instruction book before you even think of approaching the > keyboard. iirc, I had two total screw-ups with Gentoo in the 1.2 days before > I got it installed and going properly. > > Don't even nightmare about installing the unstable or '~x86' version. It > really isn't ready for the General Public. ( as I've just discovered, Scribus > segfaults. )
I concur wholeheartedly with Chris here. What I am quite sure of, after my experience and observations, is that there are people put off Gentoo simply because they fail to follow instructions. Gee, I know for sure that I am at the lower end of understanding the CLI and UNIX but I can install Gentoo (the first time I accepted an offer of help from Nick though) and I am absolutely positive that post install the experience is fantastic - reliable, easy to upgrade and a great forum for any questions. In the first instance, what convinced me to try it was the fact that two stalwarts of this list, Nick and Chris, who have tried heaps of distros, recommended Gentoo. (My recommendation is probably not worth as much but it does come from someone who was a newbie when he started with Gentoo) Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz BOFH Excuse #312: incompatible bit-registration operators
