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Dear people at Gentoo, |
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I have just installed the Gentoo Linux and I'm very happy with it, |
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but think it could be better. |
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First, say that Gentoo is exactly what I was looking for. I had done |
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something like it with a Suse distribution, due to the fact that it was |
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the "only" one wich had the gcc2.95 instead of the buggy 2.96. It had |
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gcc but X was old, so I installed a base system and compiled a lot of |
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things on the top of it, but now, Gentoo does it in a much more |
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confortable way. |
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Eventhough, the installation could be a little simpler, with at |
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least, a menu based installation (if not graphical), like, for example, |
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RedHat5 or so. In addition, things like network card module load, may |
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be done automatically. If the system detects my ne2k-pci (as it does), |
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why doesn´t it load the module by itself?. A menu-based ip |
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configuration, CPU selection (for the -mcpu, -march)... In one word, a |
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front-end. |
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The installation itself is not hard (at least for someone with a |
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little experience), but with an appropiate front-end, it would be just |
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incredible. |
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Another little thing is a graphical tool which lets you see the |
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packages installed and those available at Gentoo, install those you |
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want with just one click (or some of them), de-install them in the same |
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way, etc. |
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Nothing more. Just to say that this is, by far, the best distribution |
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I've ever used (and I've used, SlackWare (by the timer fvwm95 "was |
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born"), RedHat (5, 6, 7), Suse (7 & 8), Debian (potato), Mandrake 8...). |
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Thanks for the best (and fastest) Linux ever. |
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Igor Modino. |
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