I have been for a year on gentoo and I recently subscribed to this list. To 
introduce myself, I am a psychologist with no studies in computing and I have 
been using gentoo for a year now. I very much apologise if I am telling 
something out of context.

A Divendres 01 Juny 2007, Ted Kosan va escriure:
> A few months ago I posted an alternative solution to the Gentoo newbie
> confusion problem.  I have put together the following Gentoo installation
> materials which are specifically designed to guide newbies through the
> Gentoo installation process in a thorough and unambiguous way:

I have been reading your materials and I find them really good. In fact, I 
will give your materials to a friend of mine (if this is all right with you) 
so she can install gentoo on her own. 

A Dimecres 06 Juny 2007, Josh Saddler va escriure:
> I was a complete newcomer to Linux; Gentoo was the first distro that I
> successfully installed (having unsuccessfully used crappy Ubuntu LiveCDs
> late in 2004). That was in '05. I had never used the command line
> before. Gentoo was a plunge into the deep end of the pool for me, but as
> soon as I installed it, I was able to keep it and use it as my primary
> (within a few months *only*) OS.

My first experience is similar to this one. I had no idea what I was doing 
when I first installed gentoo and no understanding of, for example, what 
chroot meant. I find the handbook really really good as I was able to 
successfully install gentoo without grasping the meaning of what I was doing 
while, at the same time, enabling me to understand it afterwards. At the same 
time, I believe that Ted materials have information I wish I had when I first 
installed gentoo: they are not general materials on "gnu/linux" but a 
detailed explanation on how to install gentoo giving some context on what is 
being done. 

Ted: please, let me know if it is all right with you if I make private copies 
of the text. 

Cheers!

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