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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, Gentoo. |
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> After a few weeks of effort, I've just gone live with my very own Gentoo |
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> system. :-) |
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> The last stage was copying most of my files over from my old box, which |
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> involved a significant degree of screwing the disk drives. |
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> It is such a relief to say goodbye to my ancient Debian system, which no |
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> longer had a functioning package system. Also, my ten year old hardware |
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> was feeling ever more underpowered as time went by. |
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> Installing and configuring Gentoo was significantly easier than Debian, |
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> even though it took about the same amount of time. The approach "insert |
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> the DVD, press the button, and everything will work OK" is fine, until |
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> something _doesn't_ work OK; then you've got several hours (or days) of |
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> tedious searching for the answer. By contrast, with Gentoo's 41 pages |
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> of detailed instructions, you really can't go far wrong. And at the end |
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> of it, there's further detailed documentation to get X and window |
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> manager etc. set up. |
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> I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the |
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> Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody |
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> else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything |
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> yourself. I think anything in the middle, like Debian, just leads to |
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> confusion and uncertainty. I don't know where Fedora and SuSE fit into |
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> all this. |
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> Anyhow, I'm now up and running, with some installation and config still |
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> to do: things like how to get British English and German keyboard |
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> layouts in XFCE, how to make it's terminal have a black background and |
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> things like that. I also need to find a decent PDF viewer, and a decent |
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> jpeg viewer. |
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> So, thanks for all the help, everybody! |
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> -- |
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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Gentoo has it's places, but at the end of the day, I just want my desktop |
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system to work with little effort on my part. And be consistent. Ubuntu |
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gives me that on a desktop -- well, it did, until they decided to switch to |
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Unity. But that's another topic... |
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For everything else (re: servers), there's Gentoo :) |
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I run a Gentoo VPS for a website. I love the flexibility of Gentoo, the |
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speed, the nothingness you start with and have to mold it together like you |
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would an artist with a block of clay. |
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