From: Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:42:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45200C00.2060405@ilievnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45200419.7030801@comcast.net>
Terry Eck wrote:
> I've been a SuSE user for several years now currently running 10.0.
> I'm interested in giving gentoo a try with the object of converting
> from SuSE to gentoo. I've been looking at this list for a couple of
> weeks and have determined that there may be a steep learning curve
> on my part converting. Any words of advice on getting up to speed
> using gentoo before I install it.
>
> Thanks for any advice you might be able to give me.
>
> Terry Eck
>
Just one word: PRAY!
..I'm joking ;-)
I would say you should be filled with patience - compiling the packets
on your machine takes a lot of time and may be it is annoying for one
who is used to just get the binaries and decompress them. The initial
installation is the hardest part in this respect because it takes a long
time before the GUI is ready. After this point compiling is not an
issue - you may do whatever you please while emerge does its job.
Everything else is just like on every modern distro. Most of the time it
is OK but there are also problems now and then. The first time I tried
Gentoo and didn't burn my bridges to turn back: I left my Slackware
alone and installed Gentoo on a different HDD. A few months later the
Slackware was gone. Now I won't change Gentoo for any other distro. Go
forward and give a try!
--
Best regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-01 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-01 18:08 [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user Terry Eck
2006-10-01 18:30 ` Mark Knecht
2006-10-01 18:31 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-01 18:50 ` David Grant
2006-10-01 18:42 ` Daniel Iliev [this message]
2006-10-01 18:51 ` Lord Sauron
2006-10-01 23:00 ` Ryan Tandy
2006-10-01 19:07 ` Jorge Almeida
2006-10-01 19:18 ` Chris Walters
2006-10-01 19:46 ` benedikt
2006-10-01 20:24 ` [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user (the way I learnt it) HXC
2006-10-01 20:11 ` [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user Neil Bothwick
2006-10-01 20:55 ` Colleen Beamer
2006-10-02 1:19 ` Terry Eck
2006-10-02 9:20 ` Philip Webb
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