[SlugLUG] Gentoo Work

[cerise at armory.com]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:57:58AM -0700, Matt Thrailkill wrote:
> I don't buy the "learning" argument either.  You can learn on most any
> distro.  The stuff you learn during the Gentoo install is pretty
> stupid... either it is routine stuff like partitioning and formatting,
> or it is Gentoo-specific like portage or their init system.  And then
> past that, I bet *most* people doing it are blindly following
> instructions anyways, which isn't exactly educational.

Ask your typical Gentoo and your typical Ubuntu user about compilers sometime.
You'll find a very interesting differential.

Personally, I don't think Gentoo is any harder to use than any other distro,
but it encourages one to dig in.  Ubuntu does the opposite -- and tries
their hardest at it.

If you *really* want to learn though -- pick up Slackware.  I owe a great
debt to Pat for my technical expertise.

-Phil/CERisE