RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

[Timothy A. Holmes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moser, Dan [mailto:DMoser@×××××××××.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:44 AM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Moore [mailto:dave.j.moore@×××××.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:35 AM
> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
> >
> > > Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old
> > way it's way
> > > better and makes you more familiar with your system
> >
> > I just finished (about a week ago) my first non-binary
> > install of a linux distribution, compiling from a stage3,
> > starting with the 2006.0 Gentoo Minimal Install CD. As
> > someone who is still relatively new to Linux, I can attest
> > that this was not very difficult, it simply requires patience
> > and a lot of looking things up. Now that I've got my system
> > up and running, I couldn't be happier
> >
> > I'd recommend trying this route, I'm glad I did. If I had
> > gone with a graphical installer, I wouldn't know half of what
> > I know now about Gentoo.. it was a great learning process.
> >
> > Dave
>
> I second Dave's opinion.

[Timothy A. Holmes] 
At the risk of piling on opinions, I agree as well, after doing 15 or so
compiled installs, I have moved to the installer for the simple fact of
needing to speed up my deployment.  My only complaint with the compiled
installation is that it takes a lot of time, I cannot just sit down get
it going and move on to other tasks.  It is faster for me to do the
graphical install (all the effort is at the front end) and then just
turn it loose,  if I need to later, I can rework the kernel and install
that.  It may not be the ideal deployment strategy, but it appears to be
working reasonably well.

TIM





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