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On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 09:54, Bojan Blazevic wrote: |
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I recently found out about Gentoo Linux in a magazine. I went to the |
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site to find out more about it. I read the instructions and came out |
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perplexed at the end. None of the commands are explained in detail, I |
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take it that they are all standard Linux commands that previous Linux |
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version users would know. Is there a site or a book I can read to be |
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able to understand the instructions. Or what would you reccomend for a |
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person thats not o advanced that wants Gentoo. |
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I am afraid that if the commands mentioned in the installation guide |
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puzzle you, then Gentoo Linux is not for you, because they are indeed |
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standart Linux commands. If you're interested in Linux, but are too |
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afraid of commands that seem to be cryptic and are not ready for doing |
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lots of things manually as well as reading enormous amounts of |
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documentation, I would suggest some other Linux distribution, like |
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RedHat, Mandrake or SUSE. |
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They are much easier to setup for a person who is not an avid Linux user |
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and they have rather good hardware autodetection during the install |
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process and most of them also supply GUI configuration utils that you |
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can use after installation. Gentoo Linux offers neither, nor does it aim |
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to. Think of it as a do-it-yourself-Linux-distribution. Many people like |
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the idea, many people don't. |
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Sincerely, |
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Dan Naumov (aka Jago on OPN) |
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