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Terry Eck wrote: |
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> I've been a SuSE user for several years now currently running 10.0. |
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> I'm interested in giving gentoo a try with the object of converting |
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> from SuSE to gentoo. I've been looking at this list for a couple of |
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> weeks and have determined that there may be a steep learning curve |
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> on my part converting. Any words of advice on getting up to speed |
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> using gentoo before I install it. |
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> Thanks for any advice you might be able to give me. |
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> Terry Eck |
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Just one word: PRAY! |
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..I'm joking ;-) |
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I would say you should be filled with patience - compiling the packets |
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on your machine takes a lot of time and may be it is annoying for one |
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who is used to just get the binaries and decompress them. The initial |
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installation is the hardest part in this respect because it takes a long |
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time before the GUI is ready. After this point compiling is not an |
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issue - you may do whatever you please while emerge does its job. |
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Everything else is just like on every modern distro. Most of the time it |
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is OK but there are also problems now and then. The first time I tried |
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Gentoo and didn't burn my bridges to turn back: I left my Slackware |
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alone and installed Gentoo on a different HDD. A few months later the |
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Slackware was gone. Now I won't change Gentoo for any other distro. Go |
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forward and give a try! |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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