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I have been for a year on gentoo and I recently subscribed to this list. To |
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introduce myself, I am a psychologist with no studies in computing and I have |
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been using gentoo for a year now. I very much apologise if I am telling |
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something out of context. |
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A Divendres 01 Juny 2007, Ted Kosan va escriure: |
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> A few months ago I posted an alternative solution to the Gentoo newbie |
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> confusion problem. I have put together the following Gentoo installation |
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> materials which are specifically designed to guide newbies through the |
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> Gentoo installation process in a thorough and unambiguous way: |
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I have been reading your materials and I find them really good. In fact, I |
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will give your materials to a friend of mine (if this is all right with you) |
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so she can install gentoo on her own. |
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A Dimecres 06 Juny 2007, Josh Saddler va escriure: |
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> I was a complete newcomer to Linux; Gentoo was the first distro that I |
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> successfully installed (having unsuccessfully used crappy Ubuntu LiveCDs |
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> late in 2004). That was in '05. I had never used the command line |
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> before. Gentoo was a plunge into the deep end of the pool for me, but as |
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> soon as I installed it, I was able to keep it and use it as my primary |
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> (within a few months *only*) OS. |
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My first experience is similar to this one. I had no idea what I was doing |
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when I first installed gentoo and no understanding of, for example, what |
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chroot meant. I find the handbook really really good as I was able to |
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successfully install gentoo without grasping the meaning of what I was doing |
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while, at the same time, enabling me to understand it afterwards. At the same |
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time, I believe that Ted materials have information I wish I had when I first |
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installed gentoo: they are not general materials on "gnu/linux" but a |
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detailed explanation on how to install gentoo giving some context on what is |
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being done. |
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Ted: please, let me know if it is all right with you if I make private copies |
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of the text. |
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Cheers! |
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