I have Gentoo on my notebook and it works great! I especially like the fact that the package that has my wireless card in it (orinoco_usb) was written so that it will automatically download the cvs HEAD and build that so I get the most up to date driver. I've had this installed for about a year and it only took about a day to install it, but that was mostly due to the fact that I choose the stage1 install, which isn't the main documented installation method anymore (stage3 is now). Its not that its hours and hours of work - its more like a little research up front and a hours of entering data in here and there (at least in my experience). If you're going for ease of install and use I would def have to throw my hat in the ubuntu ring. Kubuntu is about the easiest install I've seen. -Jared On 1/30/06, Mike Leo <mleo963@yahoo.com> wrote:
Am I wrong, or is the gentoo install insanely comlicated?
Although I did not sit in front of it from start to finish, it seems like an install takes hours and hours of work...
I followed the Handbook (some 80 pages of documentation), which i'm sure is very accurate and each step worked as advertised, but in the end it was too much.
After an install of debian, which takes me less than 20 minutes, this was too much for my poor little brain to take, and I eventually gave up.
In addition to that, I can't for the life of me, get slackware to consistantly install lilo correctly during the install.
Any comments on either of these would be apreciated, however, I am just writing this to toss my vote in for a linux install fest as a meeting topic.
I have no problem bringing in a laptop to show the simple, eligant, streamlined, 20 minute debian install, but I would like to also see someone go through a gentoo install, and assist on a slackware lilo config...all of which can be done via my laptop if needed.
Thanks ! Mike _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug