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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] maybe I am not ready for Gentoo
From:       "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy () veldy ! net>
Date:       2002-12-13 15:22:20
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Just try it.  Read lots at http://www.linuxdoc.org when you wonder about
specific package configuration.

You will learn alot before you are done with it all.  Redhat makes it too
easy and takes alot of the learning out of the process, but it also removes
alot of the flexibility.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: <sds@webpipe.net>
To: <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:20 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] maybe I am not ready for Gentoo


> I have studied Gentoo, Slackware, and Debian because I want to try
something
> besides Red Hat.  I am trying to learn more of the "lingo" here by reading
> forums and lists, and I subscribed to this list, but after reading the
> messages for a couple of days, I have found that I understood very, very
> little of what you all are talking about!
>
> If I can survive the initial install, should Gentoo be downhill from
there?
> It seems that the install is everyone's crisis, but I am curious if there
> are more troubles to come afterward that I may not be ready for.  I know I
> have to jump in and experience these things to learn them, but I am maybe
> being a little TOO careful about choosing my next distro.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
>
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