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Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, 21:03:47 schrieb John: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> I've been using linux for about 12 years now, but only used DE's. |
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no problem. |
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> I've got |
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> ADD in the extreme and have poor memory retention so trying to learn things |
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> 'UNIX' (command line and such) is just too difficult for me. I can do some |
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> command line stuff but nothing more than getting time from someplace to |
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> make my clock be correct, heh. |
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then gentoo and its derivates are not for you. The first time you need to think |
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about a problem (like compilation fails because some symbol in some lib is |
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pointing to some outdated and not installed other lib) and you will be |
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frustrated. |
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> I've been using SuSE/openSUSE now for all those 12 years but I'm becoming |
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> somewhat disgruntled with the direction I feel it's going (don't ask, it'll |
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> just get me started rantin' and ravin'). I've looked at Slackware, but the |
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> package management looks just a little bit more than I can try to handle at |
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> first without getting frustrated and scrubbing it off my hard drive. |
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if you want to have something easy that works, opensuse and co do that. Their |
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'direction' is caused by the fact that they try to be fitting for people like |
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*you*. Gentoo is for people who either new what they are doing or are able and |
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willing to learn - and to spend some hours fixing stuff if something goes wrong. |
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Just mentioning, getting my printer so far that it |
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a) worked with current cups |
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and |
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b) printed nice pictures |
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took 8h. |
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Are you willing and able to go through that? Are you able to google for |
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answers? Are you able and willing to read manuals, howtos and manpages and |
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adapt to your situation? Are you at least willing to try really hard before |
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you start asking others to solve your problems for you (ok, this list is full |
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with people asking questions that could be solved with google, grep and |
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thinking.. so.. forget this part...) |
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If you said 'no' to one of the above, gentoo and its derivates are not for |
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you. |
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> I've looked at a *LOT* of other distro's and too many use Gnome (I can't |
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> stand it, that's my opinion so don't try to argue with me to change), some |
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> are a bit too minimalistic and others too much like openSUSE is now - huge. |
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> I finally came upon Gentoo and for the past few days I've been reading and |
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> looking at things and so far it seems to be what I'm wanting to switch to, |
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> but here's my quandary: |
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> I'm dirt-poor and have only a dial-up connection. The Portage package |
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> management seems extremely nice, but will it be a problem for me to upgrade |
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> say just one package/app at a time? |
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no |
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> Will I be able to find a tarball of an |
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> app I want to try out and be able to build it like I would with rpmbuild |
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> (will it be as relatively easy as that)? Is there a 'repository' of apps |
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> anywhere that I can go to to look and see if the app I normally use for |
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> something is there? |
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yes, on your harddisk |
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> There's probably more questions, but I best keep this short for now, lol. |
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> Thanks for any replies and help with these things and I hope I made enough |
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> sense for everyone to understand what I'm trying to get at. |
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yes, and I am afraid you will be more happy with Suse, Slackware or Mepis. |
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