From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GU6X4-0002pj-02 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:59:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k91IvVwS018938; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:57:31 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k91IoG8W006170 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:50:16 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so436312ugc for ; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:50:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PdX/31XQ2HDZV+FMBU7hPNUtU+Tvj0PHuF7HGFPkNZXkBwIZ7w2N6JeXpZEsfEQ8ZuP1BA30K8acmgzj0kyjPCQ6i6AbHceq8nhTB3ST4f/7k/tN90Ia36d+ay3puvLTm8jG6lBZG4pbIOWFL6sGicIA3tbt08ShyqRdoPm3mBo= Received: by 10.67.101.8 with SMTP id d8mr2141502ugm; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.245.16 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:50:15 -0700 From: "David Grant" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user In-Reply-To: <200610012031.26892.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_11341_32588117.1159728615634" References: <45200419.7030801@comcast.net> <200610012031.26892.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Archives-Salt: 79d0c7e7-08d9-47dc-9811-7465788c675f X-Archives-Hash: 4f5e440fb44b87c1c63fdca2c7c497f1 ------=_Part_11341_32588117.1159728615634 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/1/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin 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 ------=_Part_11341_32588117.1159728615634 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

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 ------=_Part_11341_32588117.1159728615634-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list