[gentoo-dev] General Request

[gentoo-dev] General Request

[Robert Melton]

I am a rabid slackware user, but Gentoo really caught my eye, and I am going 
to try it inside of a week. 

I wish I could have found more details on gentoo.org about directory 
structure, package systems, compatiblility for building applications(will 
building things be a pain in the ass?) and an array of other things, also -- 
I would love to see a possible release date up anywhere.  

These are just some general requests coming from the point of view of a 
_totally_ new user who just stumbled onto your site.

By the way -- the direction you are taking this distro seems great!

-- 
 Robert Melton [metacosm]

Re: [gentoo-dev] General Request

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:20:36PM +0000, Robert Melton wrote:
> I am a rabid slackware user, but Gentoo really caught my eye, and I am going 
> to try it inside of a week. 
> 
> I wish I could have found more details on gentoo.org about directory 
> structure, package systems, compatiblility for building applications(will 
> building things be a pain in the ass?) and an array of other things, also -- 
> I would love to see a possible release date up anywhere.  
> 
> These are just some general requests coming from the point of view of a 
> _totally_ new user who just stumbled onto your site.
> 
> By the way -- the direction you are taking this distro seems great!

Thanks for the suggestions, and I hope you'll like Gentoo Linux.  If possible,
try to wait for a little bit and grab Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc5 -- it'll make your
life a lot easier.  The problem with a release date is that a lot of the time,
it depends on how busy we are at our "real" jobs... but I continue to hope that
1.0_rc5 will be out sometime in April.  We haven't had a new release for a while,
and right now 1.0_rc4_pre2 is a bit dated.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.