[Sussex] Re: Gentoo problems.

[John D.]

On Sunday 22 February 2004 20:52, Thomas Adam wrote:
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> You will forgive me for this, I hope, but how can you say that when that
> is what gentoo is about?
</snip>

Da Nada Senor.

But mainly because so much of Linux is over my head. I honestly feel that the 
relative complexity of "it"  is what gives so much ammunition to the 
"anti-linux" crowd - and yes their seniment's are easy for one to sympathise 
with.

I don't see myself as an IT enthusiast, but a user who want's the choice of 
not using M$ products, on social, moral and ethical grounds. But to have that 
opportunity, I have had to join the linux "learning Merry-go-round". 

I support of gentoo, their basic doc's are many times better than most, but 
for those who aren't technically minded (me :D), it's all just a little 
daunting. If you check out the gentoo forums, it appears that there's as much 
info there, as there is at the whole of linuxquestions.org, and that's one of 
the busier linux forum's (i.e. 1 distro vs lots of the).

It's all too easy to drown in linux documentation. Documentation that I don't 
really understand. That's one of the reason's that I enjoy the LUG, when I 
can get there. You get the option, so when one of our "great and good" 
explain something, I can say, "sorry, I don't follow you, can you run that by 
me again"? and I eventually understand.

Oh, and after looking at the link that Steve Williams sent, I found that there 
might be some form of logging with a basic live CD install (the stage 3 one), 
but it mentions that they only included default stuff, where no real choice 
is available - logging, being a facility where there's choice. Hence I now 
have a /var/log/messages - because i followed the instructions and emerged 
syslog-ng. I don't understand it's full capabilities, but it seems to be 
logging some of the boot messages and I'm sure if i search hard enough, 
there'll be more.

Again, thanks for your help Thomas. I'm pretty sure that I'll have more ??? 
later.

regards

John D.