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Original post by Eken Quote: Gentoo Linux is the ultimate hardcore Linux guru's Linux. Don't download until you have a lot of experience using Linux. It's the distro I use. Well, gentoo is not so hard actually if you read the manual very well. And it is not so hard if you starts from stage 2.

Very true :)

I just say that because the vast majority of PC users say "OMG a freaking huge manual OMG I have to read this?!!!!!!!!1111one" and therefore wouldn't and shouldn't use Gentoo. But, yeah, the manual is excellently written such that you don't necessarily need to be a power user to work with Gentoo.

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Original post by TDragon Gentoo Linux is the ultimate hardcore Linux guru's Linux. Don't download until you have a lot of experience using Linux. It's the distro I use.

I do beg to differ, sir: Linux From Scratch, although you cannot really call it a distro. And actually from what I've seen of Gentoo, the installation process resembles very much an automated LFS in that it is source based (IIRC, don't quote me).


jfl.

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Original post by jflanglois Quote: Original post by TDragon Gentoo Linux is the ultimate hardcore Linux guru's Linux. Don't download until you have a lot of experience using Linux. It's the distro I use. I do beg to differ, sir: Linux From Scratch, although you cannot really call it a distro. And actually from what I've seen of Gentoo, the installation process resembles very much an automated LFS in that it is source based (IIRC, don't quote me). jfl.

Okay, okay; that was hyperbole in the sense that Gentoo is not for the faint of heart or the weak of mind. Happy? ;)

-Twilight Dragon

Mn...yes. >)


jfl.

But I would say it like this:
Gentoo gives you very much, a good system, a good package manager. But why don't install Debian then? It gives you the same things except for one differ: It is much easier to install.
Well, now I was offtopic. But to be on topic: Try Debian ;) =P