At 01:47 PM 2/2/04 -0500, someone wrote:
W. B. Maguire II wrote:
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p.s. I'll stick-around for another day or so, to see the responses to
this thread, but in the meantime I'm Gentoo-ing! :-)
You're kidding right? If you're having issues with Debian, you won't be
able to deal with Gentoo. It's for the eliteists...trust me. You have no
idea what you're talking about.
Do you have any idea how condescending and arrogant "You have no idea what
you're talking about" sounds?
Actually, I *do* have an *idea*, because I've been researching it for the
last two days, and I'm in the middle of the install process right
now. Now, I'm not claiming that two days of web-reading and one partial
install amounts to any real experience, but I've gotten further than I did
with Debian. I've been using Red Hat for about a year, and I've learned
quite a bit, but that knowledge does *not* include compiling my own kernel
just to take step *one* in the Debian install process!
It would be *nice* if Debian could recognize the hardware like Red Hat 9
did, but I can certainly understand why it didn't. On the other hand, if
I can't find any help on how to proceed to install Debian, then---like I
said---I'm pretty much shut down.
Bruce.
p.s. How much experience do you have with Gentoo? Is your opinion based
on anything substantial? An unsubstantiated "my distro is better than
yours" doesn't really help me much!