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From: "Håkon Alstadheim" <hakon@×××××××××××××××.no>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:03:02
Message-Id: 4EDF2D47.9020105@alstadheim.priv.no
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse by Indi
1 Den 07. des. 2011 01:15, skrev Indi:
2 > On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:40:01AM +0100, Grant Edwards wrote:
3 >> On 2011-12-06, ny6p01@×××××.com<ny6p01@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
5 >>>> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote:
6 >>>>
7 >>>>> But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for
8 >>>>> beginners!
9 >>>> Because Gentoo is not for beginners, there are already plenty of distros,
10 >>>> like Mandriva and Ubuntu, catering for first time users. Gentoo is a
11 >>>> "power users" distro.
12 >>> And yet the documentation is clear enough for anyone to follow along.
13 >>> Which leads me to my next point: the Gentoo documentation is far and
14 >>> away the best of any distro I have tried.
15 >> Definitely.
16 >>
17 >> The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of
18 >> wrong answers posted by people who didn't understand the question.
19 >>
20 >>> Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of accolades for his
21 >>> efforts.
22 >> The Gentoo docs are indeed brilliant.
23 >>
24 > They really are. When you have great documentaion, a shell, and a keyboard
25 > that *is* user-friendly! ;)!
26 >
27
28 It tells you something that quite often when I google for
29 "some-problem-description" and debian/ubuntu/suse/windows/whatever,
30 quite often the only hits to come up are gentoo-related. On debian the
31 gentoo answer is usually useful, on ubuntu ... well, 'nuff sed.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>