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Caladon n00b
Joined: 13 Oct 2012 Posts: 15 Location: Vasa/Vörå
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:06 pm Post subject: My first topic |
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Dear Gentoo ricers I'm pretty happy with the Gentoo distro.
And don't belittle the achievements of your cousins such as the mighty Ubuntu or Arch for that matter. Somehow I never got the hang on Arch but I'm sure it has some good points.
Anyway thanks to those distros i did get some curiousity for this enigma known as Gentoo and burned at first a Live-CD just to see what it was like.
At present I got one harddrive with Gentoo distro with kms ATI support for doing mundane stuff like looking for latest news and deskjob another with fglrx ATI support for gaming and on the third there's Ubuntu for a little bit of everything.
But it has been one hell of a bumpy ride and I've enjoyed every bit of it.
The compile times can get long but going root and emerge some nice programs;init 0 and then get on with my daily business is my best friend atm.
Now I just gotta smile and be pleased and keep myself from breaking stuff on purpose to ease the tedium. |
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Thistled Guru
Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 572 Location: Scotland
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Caladon
Welcome to Gentoo!
We also look forward to you breaking your box. lol.
One thing is for sure, it has happened to all of us at some point, but once you gain the knowledge and power (mwha ha ha ha)
there is no turning back.
Arch is Gentoo based so you have probably had some insight into what is ahead of you anyway..
Njoy your new distro, and rest assured, if it screws up, you have the best documentation for a Linux flavour, and a forum that will
help you get out of a hole, no matter how big.
Happy compiling. _________________ Whatever you do, do it properly! |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54033 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Caladon,
Its far safer for your own Gentoo to post here and fix other peoples Gentoo than to break your own, just so you can fix it.
Everyone is somebody elses expert. Keep in mind "an expert is someone who knows more than you do." _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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sikpuppy n00b
Joined: 12 Jun 2012 Posts: 34 Location: Central Coast, NSW
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Thistled wrote: | Caladon
Welcome to Gentoo!
We also look forward to you breaking your box. lol.
One thing is for sure, it has happened to all of us at some point, but once you gain the knowledge and power (mwha ha ha ha)
there is no turning back.
Arch is Gentoo based so you have probably had some insight into what is ahead of you anyway..
Njoy your new distro, and rest assured, if it screws up, you have the best documentation for a Linux flavour, and a forum that will
help you get out of a hole, no matter how big.
Happy compiling. |
Arch is Gentoo based? Are you sure? |
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Veldrin Veteran
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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it is not - at least according to distrowatch _________________ read the portage output!
If my answer is too concise, ask for an explanation. |
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Thistled Guru
Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 572 Location: Scotland
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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That's funny, because when you first install Arch and boot up, shortly after Grub loads and the system starts to do it's init thingy,
it says it is Gentoo. Pretty sure it did. _________________ Whatever you do, do it properly! |
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Thistled Guru
Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 572 Location: Scotland
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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Ok so perhaps I am getting mixed up with Sabayon.
But I do know Arch can be built from source like Gentoo.
In saying that, so can many flavours probably.
Oh well, think I will crawl back under my stone now.
_________________ Whatever you do, do it properly! |
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Caladon n00b
Joined: 13 Oct 2012 Posts: 15 Location: Vasa/Vörå
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Both Gentoo and Arch is bit Linux and that is in common. And they go on rolling release and got that in common. But they are different flavors. No idea not big on being a techie.
Neddyseagoon gives fair warning. I did have a bad habit of breaking my toys. The good thing about Gentoo is it's delivered in pieces so you just can't go wrong. |
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