[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Caleb Shay]

Welcome aboard.  I've been using Gentoo for about 6 months.  I too was a
Debian user (for 3 years) before I found Gentoo.  You'll soon find that
the maintainers are very approachable and helpful too, unlike SOME
distros.  Most of the action is on irc (irc.freenode.net #gentoo), and
it's ALWAYS busy in there.

Yes, they do need a boot floppy setup.  I keep meaning to create one
myself, but I have never gotten around to it.

Cheers,

Caleb

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 10:11, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> After spending all weekend with my Thinkpad 240...(so cute) trying to shovel
> Gentoo onto it, I have success!...
> 
> This is quite possibly the nicest linux I've seen... build stuff from
> scratch pretty much... compile the kernel as part of installation, and
> Portage which is just like BSD ports...I used to be a dyed-in-the-wool
> Debian user.
> 
> Only bone to pick:  Gentoo team ought to make some boot floppies...esp
> pcmcia stuff... you have to use the Slackware 8.1 install set + pcmcia.dsk
> to install.  Then you have to mount an extra floppy with a statically linked
> bzip2.  Lucky my CD-ROM is pcmcia ide.
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Andrew J. Weiss
> Field Network Engineer
> En Pointe Technologies
> aweiss at enpointe.com, ajwdsp at cloud9.net
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