so, can I have gentoo back now?

Mateus Interciso p.zarnick
Fri Jul 20 12:23:15 PDT 2007


On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:17:32 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> On 7/20/07, Mateus Interciso <p.zarnick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think, that the installing Gentoo is very hard for an unexperienced
>> user, but, they also provide an excelent handbook(btw, why do handbooks
>> are called handbooks, if most of them is 400 pages???), and easy to
>> follow. I think it is like this to make Gentoo a more broad
>> distribution, were you can have a good unexpensive server setted up and
>> running with exactly just what you want. Or you can have a bleeding
>> edge desktop. Although I think that for a desktop, for a new Linux
>> user, Ubuntu would be bether.
> 
> Last time I used Gentoo (which was roughly 2 years ago), the 'handbook'
> was full of errors.  The sad thing is that the time before that when I
> used Gentoo (prolly a year or two earlier), it had the very same errors.
>  This didn't exactly give me much confidence that Gentoo was on top of
> their game when their basic documentation was wrong.

Hum, I'm pretty sure I didn't found any errors on the handbook last time 
I installed a Gentoo machine(2 months), neither the first time I 
installed (some 2 years)....but for sure I may be misslooking.

Mateus




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