From: "David Grant" <davidgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:50:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d18977190610011150o2964565w39b7751331be44ff@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610012031.26892.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
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On 10/1/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
wrote:
>
> On Sunday 01 October 2006 20:08, 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.
> >
>
> well, read the documentation on gentoo.org. Handbook, installation
> instructions.
>
> If it seems to complicated to you, don't do the switch. But if you
> think 'well, I might be able to do it', try it. Backup your suse forst, of
> course.
I agree, just read the handbook over the course of a few days or however
long it takes you. If you understand most of it (or if you didn't understand
it before reading the handbook but you do afterwards) and you think it
sounds easy to you, then everything else should be easy.
--
David Grant
http://www.davidgrant.ca
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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 [this message]
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
2006-10-02 1:19 ` Terry Eck
2006-10-02 9:20 ` Philip Webb
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