Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64 newbie

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Monday, 23 January 2006 22:19, lnxg33k wrote:
> It's always good to know your system, but the entire installation process
> is rather painless (minus my experience with Grub which isn't architecture
> dependent). You'll want to learn more about the CPU if you plan on
> developing for it, but as a user you should be fine. You'll learn a lot
> simply by using the environment and reading up when you can or run into
> problems. Anyway, good luck with your install whichever distro you decide
> to use.

I've chosen a *big* harddisk so I'll probably go for all three to see what 
they do. However, the main reason why I did not switch to Gentoo is I was 
lazy - my double Athlon has been running Mepis for over two years with little 
changes so I justed sticked to running it so.

Changing my main machine seems the good time to switch and get more control 
over the system. I just tested emerge --update --deep world on my 32bit 
Gentoo and all went well (I just had to set the Displamanager back to kdm by 
hand) and while I prefer apt-get to SuSE's rpms, nothing beats emerge.

Thierry

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