Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Friday 17 October 2008 23:27:44 RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
> heehee have been wanting to get onboard with gentoo for a while now how
> ironic that the wiki site i was so looking forward to using is down the
> same day my gentoo box is up heehee.

Let's see, how shall I put this? Oh stuff it, might as well be honest.

gentoo-wiki.com is notorious for being up and down more often than you change 
your underwear. It's also been compromised at least twice in the last 12 
months. The home page was last updated so long ago I'm no longer sure if it 
was still in this millenium.

The content on it is even less reliable than the nonsense you will find 
spouted off on Ubuntu forums (and that's saying something...)

For someone starting out with Gentoo I would be inclined to persuade you[1] to 
avoid gentoo-wiki at all costs for a while. The real info, the true stuff, is 
to be found on the official Gentoo site and right here on this list (of 
course!)

Don't let this put you off - Gentoo is great, the wiki is just not so great.

Cheers
alan

[1] This step is often successfully completed by application of a very big 
stick :-)

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