RedHat and Gentoo questions!

[Kendric Beachey]

On Friday 09 May 2003 06:57 pm, Patrick Thurmond wrote:
> #1  Is the Gentoo setup pretty straight-forward. I am honestly not more
> the intermediate at Linux at best so I don't need anything overly
> complicated at this time (Have too many other things on my mind).

I wouldn't say it's especially hard, but it can take a long time.

> #2  Is it pretty easy to navigate? Are all the settings hard to find?
> Like screen resolution, desktop settings, device management tools, etc.

They're all in the standard locations.  Gentoo doesn't have a whole lot of 
administative stuff that any other distro hasn't got, with the notable (and 
essential) exception of emerge.

> #3  Has anyone ever installed Interchange on Gentoo. Interchange was
> originally a program started by RedHat but then dropped and taken in by
> a group of programmers. It was originally designed to run only on RedHat
> (as far as I know) but since I am not sure all it entails with the OS I
> was hoping someone knew if it could run on another distro like Gentoo or
> not.

On Gentoo, no, but I had it up and running on Mandrake a while back.  It 
wasn't too hard to do, as I recall. 

> #4  Does Gentoo have a reliable CD Burning program? DVD-R burning
> program?

I've become partial to K3B, but there are many other choices as well.

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