[Wftl-lug] alanw(Tuxzine)

[Colleen Beamer]

Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> hi
> 
> On 1/5/07, *jlnca1* <jlnca at sbcglobal.net <mailto:jlnca at sbcglobal.net>>
> wrote:
> 
>     alanw asked about the best live cd these days.
>     I have been playing with Sabayon Linux which is based on Gentoo, and
>     as far as I can tell
>     so far; I tis fairly fast once it gets to a window manager, the boot
>     up process is fairly
>     long due to it's Gentoo origins.
> 
> 
> Everyone has their favorite Linux distro, and it's never wise to attempt
> to throw cold water on someone's pet distro, but I personally have never
> used any Gentoo-based distro because I feel that my skills are not what
> they should be to deploy Gentoo.  I would encourage any GUI-dependent
> user like me to be prepared to study hard when deploying Gentoo.  It
> would not be my first choice for a newbie.

I have to agree with you that Gentoo is not the choice for a newbie.
Gentoo *is* my distro of choice and I have *never* used their live CD,
but when I installed Gentoo, I had about 4 years of Linux under my belt.
 The first install was *not* without it's hurdles, but luckily, I had
both the help of a friend and the help of Gentoo documentation, which to
my mind is superaltive.  Gentoo *does* teach you a lot - like how to
write configuration files.

However, I don't want anyone to think that Gentoo is only a distro for
"geeks".  I don't have any formal computer training beyond courses in
DOS, Windows and various Microsoft applications and a very basic Unix
course, all taken at night school.  However, I don't find Gentoo
difficult to use or impossible to install and there are many benefits.
So, while it is not a distro for newbies, once you get over being a true
"newbie", it has a lot to offer, IMHO!  :-)

Regards,

Colleen
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