[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-12-06, ny6p01@×××××.com <ny6p01@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote:
>>
>> > But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for
>> > beginners!
>>
>> Because Gentoo is not for beginners, there are already plenty of distros,
>> like Mandriva and Ubuntu, catering for first time users. Gentoo is a
>> "power users" distro.

> And yet the documentation is clear enough for anyone to follow along.
> Which leads me to my next point: the Gentoo documentation is far and
> away the best of any distro I have tried.

Definitely.

The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of
wrong answers posted by people who didn't understand the question.

> Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of accolades for his
> efforts.

The Gentoo docs are indeed brilliant.

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