From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:55:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45202B4A.10906@gmail.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.
I pretty much think that if I can install and run Gentoo then, anyone
willing to give it an honest try can do it. I *do not* have a technical
educational background.
I writing this to retiterate what all other responses have said - read
the Handbook and any other HowTo documents on the Gentoo site. Books
have been written for other Linux distros, but no one has written one
for Gentoo - it's not needed. Gentoo documentation is superlative and
exceptionally easy to follow!
If the something in the documentation needs clarification, or you run
into a snag, the people on this list are always ready to lend a helping
hand and in my experience you'll always be steered in the right direction.
Good luck! At the risk of sounding biased, Gentoo is the best distro of
any! I've used Redhat/Fedora Core, Mandrake (before it became
Mandriva), Mepis, and Ubuntu/Kubuntu and you couldn't pay me to go back
to any of those!
Regards,
Colleen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-01 21:07 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
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 [this message]
2006-10-02 1:19 ` Terry Eck
2006-10-02 9:20 ` Philip Webb
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