Gentoo.

Chris Wagner ismgr at atchisonkansas.net
Thu May 22 19:40:43 CDT 2003


Hey, no offense taken.

I'm a total newbie to *nix.

Thanks for the tips.

Chris

> From: Rich Edelman <redelman at speedscript.com>
> Organization: Digital Simplistics, Inc
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:36:04 -0500
> To: Chris Wagner <ismgr at atchisonkansas.net>, Jeremy Fowler
> <JFowler at westrope.com>, KC Linux Users Group <kclug at kclug.org>
> Subject: Re: Gentoo.
> 
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 02:06 pm, Chris Wagner wrote:
>> Don't really have any desire to custom compile a kernel.
>> 
>> I guess I'm not looking at it as seriously as many of you.
>> 
>> I'm not sure I want to have to compile everything like that. Not that I
>> don't trust the folks at Gentoo, but I do want to install it and let it go
>> for the most part.
>> 
>> I understand this will limit the scope of what I can do with the system,
>> but then again, I'm not looking to tweak out a system like most of you pros
>> do, and if I do decide to, well, you all are a great resource.  =:-)
>> 
>> Thanks for the response.
>> 
>> I appreciate the clarification.
>> 
>> Chris
> 
> Not to be rude or anything, but then you might not want to use Gentoo. There
> are very very few available binary packages in Gentoo-Land. Maybe RH, or
> Debian, is more for you.
> 
> Rich
> 




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