n00b or w00t?

haarbi · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:23 pm Post subject: n00b or w00t?

I realized that (including me), many Forum users seem to be people which haven't got much experience with linux. I learned the basics about Linux the last year in school, mostly we worked with the shell, learned things about the filesystem, userrights etc..

I think gentoo is the perfect distribution to learn and understand Linux. The Documentation is very good, so no one who knows the basics of linux, which everyone can learn with knoppix in 1 week (shell commands like ls, mkdir, cat/less/more or whatever, basics about filesystem and it's structure and about userrights...more you don't have to know because the install-documentation tells you everything you need.

Before I installed gentoo two weeks ago I tried Mandrake. The result: installing software suxx, the documentation suxx ...and so you can't learn and after 2 days you boot windows again.

...I'm talking too much.

So...I always (exept in this forum) read gentoo is nothing for noobs. I think it is the best distro a noob can get.

[I choosed max 3 month ...the year I learned it in school i had to use it and most of the time was theory]
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binny · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:25 pm Post subject:

I'm new to gentoo (1 month) but I use Linux for 5 or 6 years. Began on Slackware

haarbi · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:31 pm Post subject:

damend i think by editing my first post i broke something that i can't change ...gnaaa :oops:

-edit the post
-cant see the poll
-edit the post again adding the poll
-can see the old poll and the new poll
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alexw · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 5

Very new to it! Looking forward to using something else and something new!

Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

I first tried Linux 4 years ago, but only on and off. I've been using Gentoo pretty much exclusively for about 4 months now. I never managed to find a distro that did everything I needed until Gentoo. Now I wonder how I ever did without it.

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:48 pm Post subject:

The poll is completely fscked - there are multiple versions of the same answer..

I've used Linux so long I love the same choices over and over again ?

haarbi · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject:

nerdbert · l33t Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 981 Location: Berlin

IIRC it was 5 years ago I installed linux for the first time ( I didn't have a clue, so it took me another 2 years before I really started using it)

pYrania · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject:

first experiences back in 1998
by that i mean, first installed a distro and got used to it, before i watched my father lurking with it for some years...

running at least one box with linux only since 1999
and since early 2002 i use no more windows.
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haarbi · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject:

46% @ more than 3 years so far ....thought there would be more real linux newbies in here

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luap · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 5:35 pm Post subject:

2 years installing mandrakes, redhats, suses, libranets, and a few others.
3 mos use of a suse. 4 mos use of gentoo.
i like gentoo, i use it as my personal desktop. i am not a programmer or computer guy, but i am about to embark on learning mysql, using gentoo.
i learned alot about linux from gentoo. i learned some from redhat and the huge volume of doc re: redhat, i learned little from suse, but everything worked, and i learned essentialy nada from mandrake.

haarbi · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 5:45 pm Post subject:

FoX · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject:

I been using Linux for almost 5 years now. I know I wasted 3 of these years on distro like Caldera OpenLinux, Makdrake, RedHat and other non-cusomizable linux environement...

I have to agree with haarbi, Mandrake sux. I used it in my early Linux time because I didn't knew it was that bad...
A few weeks later, I switched to a LFS system. This system gave me hell of a headache!
I learned so many thing with LFS, but it's a nightmare to build a whole system and to config manualy every single packages...

Almost a year ago I tryed Gentoo and I found that it's a good compromise between, the custom build but time consuming of a LFS and the non-costumizability but time-saving of a pre-built distro.

-FoX
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Wolfpack98 · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 61 Location: USA

Been using Gentoo linux for almost 4 months now. Was introduced late last year by my former Employer, so i got hooked.

Been using RedHat before that. 2 and a half years with RedHat, Caldera, or FreeBSD. At the time, I soooooooo wanted to stay away from Windows... DIE WINDOWS! ! ! :twisted:

I tried Mandrake. When I noticed it was using Eurpoean standards rather than American (which is what I was completely and utterly used to), I dropped it. I have this pet peeve about not being able to switch from European standards to American, and the Mandrake version I had didn't do it well

Wolfpack98 · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 61 Location: USA

Been using Gentoo linux for almost 4 months now. Was introduced late last year by my former Employer, so i got hooked.

Been using RedHat before that. 2 and a half years with RedHat, Caldera, or FreeBSD. At the time, I soooooooo wanted to stay away from Windows... DIE WINDOWS! ! ! :twisted:

I tried Mandrake. When I noticed it was using Eurpoean standards rather than American (which is what I was completely and utterly used to), I dropped it. I have this pet peeve about not being able to switch from European standards to American, and the Mandrake version I had didn't do it well

lemming · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Kanab, UT

First heard of it in 1993. Installed it in 1994. Heavily started using it in 1996 and haven't gone back.
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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

first instlled RH 5 almoast 5 yrs ago. i didn't stick w/ it. I instlled BSD almoast 2 yrs ago and used it until i installed gentoo a little over a year ago.
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