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On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:02:37AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: |
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> Hello. I am new to Gentoo and I am looking for a good place to start. I |
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> have over 4 years of experience with Linux and have built my own |
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> distributions in the past. I am looking for a more community based approach |
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> to this and have stumbled across Gentoo. It seems to be quite intruguing. |
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> Can anybody give me any tips for a quick start into Gentoo? Should I |
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> install slackware and then rsync the sources and build a Gentoo |
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> distribution? I also am a bit confused as to where the distribution |
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> resides. It almost appears as if the entire distribution (as source |
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> scripts) resides in "portage". Is this so? |
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The intelligence behind building the entire distribution does reside in Portage; |
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however, we do have an installation CD ISO image that has pre-built binary |
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packages. You can download this CD and install Gentoo Linux directly. We |
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have instructions (that I'm about to update) posted on the web site. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |