[Nottingham] Man Loses Will to Live During Gentoo Install

[Fay Knight]

On 17/05/17 17:32, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> 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
>
>
I'm having a good laugh at this one and some of the other articles now.   

Fay