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On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:02:09 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: |
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> Thank you all a lot. |
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> I won't bother you for some time :-) |
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> Just one thing: people often thinks gentoo is harder than other |
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> distributions to use. |
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That's mostly because Gentoo forces you to think about what you want to do :-) |
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This isn't a bad thing, people have to think all the time. Like choosing a |
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wife - men should consider very carefully if the girl is a good choice, then |
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marry her if the answer is yes. Software choices are like that too. |
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> Well, maybe that's true, however here I found the best support I've ever |
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> found for a linux distribution (and for softwares in general...). |
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Probably because we remember all too well what it was like for us in the early |
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days. I remember my first Gentoo install in 2004, I just blindly followed the |
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handbook without a clue what I was doing! That machine still runs, I fixed all |
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my initial mistakes (no reinstall!), but it's no longer my primary machine. |
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It's right next to me at this desk, as a file sever |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |