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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@prosalg.no>
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Gary Whysong wrote:

> My problem is with your portage system.  Basically, almost 40% of the 
> software I've tried to install doesn't.  Some of it dies with no error 
> messages, other's with the inability to simply create directories. 

Despite what the 1.2 label on our ISO may make you think, Gentoo Linux is,
and will be for the near future a "bleeding-edge" distribution. That means
you should not consider it for day-to-day use unless you're willing to
help improving the distribution by submitting bugreports on a semi-daily
basis as you encounter problems. 

If you want something that "just works", I recommend you use one of the
more established distributions.


That being said, we _ARE_ working on improving the stability and
ruggedness of the distribution as hard as we can, but this is a very
time-consuming process.


As Brandon mentioned in his post, we'd be _very_ interested in hearing
a detailed account of your gripes. 


Good luck with your further journey in the Linux Land of the Free ;)


Kind regards,

Karl T