[Linux-Anyway] Re: Mandrake-bashing (was: refugee)
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:28:31 -0700 (PDT)
> > I'm soon to switch from RH to gentoo. There are many
> > reasons for this -- not to mention what RH keeps doing to
> > perfectely good Linux -- like gaming. Gentoo will run ports
> > of many dos/windows games without trouble (unlike RH) & there
> > are numerous emulators for gentoo to play lots of other games
> > -- even many dos/windows games you have lying round from the
> > misguided M$ past;-).
> Ya, I'm on the Gentoo page right now, and even downloading the
> CD's. It's sounding better and better all the time, even
> starting from a stage 3 install. I just don't think I'm ready
> for a stage one, but I'll do more reading on it and decide.
I've been running Linux since RH released 5.0, but I can't say
I would feel comfortable -- let alone wouldn't find the whole
thing annoying -- to do either a stage 1 or 2. I've heard from
other gentoo users that there doesn't seem to be that much
advantage to 1 or 2 over 3. So, I too will be installing stage 3
& updating from there. That too takes time, but at least I
should be on-line right away insted of having to wait...& wait.
> The worst thing that can happen is that I might learn something
> and be without a fully functioning system for a day or two.
Oh, may the Gods forbid! Learn something???? Eeeek!;-) But
keep reading -- you may find, as I, that stage 3 is the way to
go.
> Slack would be easier to install, but I'm a sucker for bleeding
> edge, I can't help it.
May be easier, but...I forget now...there were problems when
I'd attempted two different releases of slack. I wasn't pleased.
Meph
--
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick,
and feasts most subtly on the human will."
-Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"
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