Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:13, Jeff Fuller wrote:Thanks for the info Christopher but as i am new to anything other than point and click, I will wait till get more understanding of how to work things(am a newbe)
Yes! interested in buying CD/CDs(no DVD) Have to have some tuition on
installing as i am very new to Linux------Thanks jeff
There are several of us on the list who have found Gentoo to our liking. I have no idea as to your general knowledge about computers, but if you have a reasonable understanding of the lore, you might find Gentoo appealing.
( It might be a bit of a baptism of file / jumping in at the deep end :-)
If so have a look at:- http://www.gentoo.org in particular:- http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml
You will need a fairly grunty machine. 600 ~ 700 MHz is a realistic minimum. Under 400MHz is totally unworkable.
I can offer CDs for this Distribution.
Like all Linux distros, there are a ( very ) few points of failure, but in my experience fewer than most of the others. They have completely fixed the RPM hell & upgrade nonsense.
Cheers jeff
