[Tfug] OS`s

[Matthew T. Eskes]

Im not going to lie. The first time installing Gentoo is like pulling
teeth. But there are tons of docs at their website that are EXCELENT and
do a very nice job with the spoonfeeding. Lets just say, Im a seasoned
Gentoo user who started out with RedHat and I can say that Im so happy
with Gentoo, I use it on LITTERALLY everything, Including my Mac.
However, this is the downside...if you want to look at it that way.
Compiling the Big things like Gnome/KDE/OOo takes a while. When I lived
in Houston and had my Compaq with a TBird 900 with 384 Megs RAM, it took
a total of 16 hours to do a complete install, from Tarball to Gnome and
on my Mac, it took 48 hours to just compile Gnome whilest the base
install too 12. Moral of the story: Patience. 


On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 18:25, Sam Arredondo wrote:
> So, how easy is Gentoo to set up and get working. I
> heard it may take some work...
> 
> Sam
> 
> --- "Matthew T. Eskes" <meskes at cox.net> wrote:
> > I dont know how new you are to Linux, but it if
> > you're decently
> > comfortable with it, Try Debian or Gentoo. I use
> > Gentoo on everything I
> > run, including my Mac and I love it, though I
> > wouldnt hessetate to use
> > Debian either if the job calls for it.
> > 							-Matt 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:58, Roy Babin wrote:
> > > Do not want to start an OS war, just want
> > recomendations as to a GOOD os 
> > > that will support KDE & Gnome, also have a
> > workable DVD-rw burner 
> > > program. Please do not incluse SUSE, do not want
> > to fight that again.
> > > Thank you.....Roy
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