[Nottingham] Man Loses Will to Live During Gentoo Install

[Martin]

On 17/05/17 14:40, VM via Nottingham wrote:
> On 17 May 2017 13:10:01 BST, Jason Irwin via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> https://www.sudosatirical.com/articles/man-loses-will-to-live-during-gentoo-install/


> Thanks for the warning. I was thinking about Gentoo. I guess I'll go the Sabayon route now :)
> 
> P.S. From my experience Linux From Scratch was not a traumatic experience. But then again it didn't occupy my main PC and LXF actually provides time estimates for every unit.


Deary deary deary me... That site looks to be all rather childishly
jaundiced...

Given good beer (or whatever beverage) and some nibbles, such a first
install for Gentoo or "Linux From Scratch" /should/ be fun and
educational. For my first attempt at Gentoo, the time flew by but in a
very useful way for finding out how things worked at each step.

For the next installs, there was barely a need to follow the recipe...
The understanding that was gained make the pieces nicely fit together in
their own logical sequence.

(Also, Gentoo is the only distro I use that has the flexibility to work
well on certain old quirky hardware.)

And then we have the various distros that have put all the pieces
together under (almost) a single click for those in greater haste.


So, for some positive humor:

We can explore further tomorrow ;-) ;-)

> 7:30pm Thursday 18/05/2017:
>
> *Angelical - Installs, VPSes & Backups*
>
> http://nottingham.lug.org.uk/event/angelical-installs-vpses-backups


Cheers,
Martin


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