Gentoo... my most favorite of all linux distro's.

Gentoo is possably the most customisable, most optimised, and if installed correct,y the most powerfull of all linux distro's.

but there is one thing holding it back. All the other distro's are easy to install. Doanload an install CD... and boot it.

With gentoo you needed to boot a live cd, download and extract a minni linux system, then chroot into it, and build gentoo from that, all command line. Much too difficult for newbs. setting the corrct compiler optimisations, and use flags meant gentoo was for more experianced linuxers only...

but take a look at this.... http://dev.gentoo.org/%7Eagaffney/gli/

Gentoo has an installer ! (well, it will soon)

the important point, is setting the correct compiler optimisation is now as simple as choosing your processor type from a list.

Setting use flags is a simple as selecting tick boxes in a list.... (descriptions of what each use flag does is in a comment beside it)

and have a look at step 12...extra packages.. a nice fedora installer look-a-like.

It will still take a long time to compile a whole operating system... especially if like me you like doing stage 1 installs.... but u know... yay gentoo

 

 

 

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well, that is nice, and important for n00bs... , but...

personaly I think that installing gentoo as it is right now, has some magic, just like Slackware has its own magic and LFS also... and I like this magic... I hope that there would be oportunity to install it how it is right now... Since one of three magic distros would dissapear for me

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very nice, very clean, although most people wont grasp what all that means, Linux is a lot harder than windows to install, pretty easy once in just not easy to get there.

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maybe 5 years ago, but i cant imagine anyone who can manage a windows install would have trouble with somthing like fedora or mandrake install.


the graphical installer doesnt do anything differently from the command line installer.

think of it as a frontend. you can still install gentoo vie the old method if you like.

but this will add very important features, like the amility to generate a kickstart file, and use that to install many other computers ithou thaving to go through manually entering settings again... vital when ypu have to install on a whole room fll of computers.

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Iīm a bit pi**ed of with windows in the moment and think about to install linux, can anybody recomend an easy to install distribution. Iīve got no idea about linux but so far i heard it should be much better than any windows os. Actually i downloaded suse 9.2 but canīt make it work. Canīt create the iso...


Thanks

 

 

 

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You download the ISO and you burn it onto a CD.

a mistake many people make, is to make a Data Cd, with the iso inside it.
this wont work, when you create a Data CD, you are creating a filesystem with files in it.

the ISO you download IS the filesystem, and contains all the files linux needs.

basically, from nero, select the option to burn a CD from a Cd IMAGE..(the iso is the image)

if you dont have nero, then just use the trial version from nero.com.

As for help on choosing a distro, its already been discussed here http://www.astahost.com/The-Best-Version-O...-New-t3006.html

for reviews of linux distro's try distrowatch.org.

And no matter how pi$$ed off with windows you are, Linux will still be frustrationg untill you learn how to use it.

Things like using forward slashes instead of backward slashes, and remembering you need to enter the root password before making system wide changes. etc etc etc.

and whilst you are learning, somthing will go wrong, and you will need to have a read and ask some experts, and learn... its not like windows when whenever somthing breaks, it needs a re-install.

anyways, alsong as you dont read too much hype about linux, and expect to be able to use it instantly, and expect it to change your life, then it should be an overall pleasent experiance.

remember when you first ever sat at a windows computer, and you didnt know how to setup Network address translation.... its gonna be like that all over again

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