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On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:40:01AM +0100, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2011-12-06, ny6p01@×××××.com <ny6p01@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >> > But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for |
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> >> > beginners! |
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> >> |
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> >> Because Gentoo is not for beginners, there are already plenty of distros, |
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> >> like Mandriva and Ubuntu, catering for first time users. Gentoo is a |
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> >> "power users" distro. |
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> > And yet the documentation is clear enough for anyone to follow along. |
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> > Which leads me to my next point: the Gentoo documentation is far and |
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> > away the best of any distro I have tried. |
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> Definitely. |
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> The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of |
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> wrong answers posted by people who didn't understand the question. |
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> > Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of accolades for his |
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> > efforts. |
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> The Gentoo docs are indeed brilliant. |
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They really are. When you have great documentaion, a shell, and a keyboard |
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that *is* user-friendly! ;)! |
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