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Originally Posted by Mortamer
Wow, Gentoo sounds excellent... I havent had much Linux experience so do you think Gentoo will be to overwhealming to start with? Do you think I should start with an easier distro like Mandrake or jump right into Gentoo?
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The installation took me 8 hours on a p3 1.1ghz, and 17 hours on a p2 233mhz. If you want the system to be optimized, you'll be waiting that long too.
Gentoo's install is all instruction based, and you have to read
each and every instruction and make sure you got them all right before continuing.. If you dont get each right, you basically have to start over. Take a look at the installation documents on gentoo.org, and see if you think you would be able to follow that closely. The manual basically describes every command and everything you would need to install, but there are a lot of 'IF YOU HAVE THIS OR THAT' that you have to follow.
My rating of gentoo is:
Install: hellish
Speeds: very nice when optimized. optimization is acieved by downloading source code to everything and compiling it specifically for your processor, which the install does automatically.
support: gentoo has a nifty program called 'portage,' which allows you to get packages for gentoo. Say you wanted kde. you would type 'emerge kde' on a root shell. The kde download is about 10 minutes on DSL, but the compilation was like 13 hours (1.1ghz).
more on portage is on their website,
http://gentoo.org
I dont recommend gentoo linux for a newbie of linux because it takes a lot of reading to install -- and there is no 'automatic install' like on red hat. you boot the cd, and you get a root shell.
If you want more info on gentoo, go to their website (gentoo.org), or send me a message and ill rant more :lol: