gentoo news and ramblings

[Collins]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:53:26 -0700 Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
> Well, I haven't sent out any gentoo "propaganda" in a while, so here
> goes.
> 
 
A few after thoughts:

1) Boy did I leave the typos in that one!  Those guys who complained
about one typo in the elx installer will send this directly to the plonk
file <grin>

2) gentoo is still officially billed as a distro for sysadmins. 
Nevertheless, a lot of sheer newbies are trying it lately, mostly with
success.  If you have been lurking on this list for a while, know how to
partition a disk, and know how to add a user to your system and change
your password (or at least how to read the man files, since I can never
remember that trick very long), you can do this, too.

3) I'm currently using about 1.5 Gig out of a 5 Gig partition, and I
have gnome, kde, and OpenOffice, Netscape, and Mozilla installed (all
big hitters for space), so I have lots of room to grow.  gentoo leaves
the source (.tbz files) for all installs onboard, but you can remove
them manually, as I have done.  I would recommend 3-4 Gig for your
install.

Enjoy,
-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
Gentoo_rc6-15 2.4.17 - xfce + sylpheed + mozilla + oo641C