[StALUG] trying out Gentoo

[Jim McLaren]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:13:44 +0100
Rory Beaton <rb36 at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:

> Virtualbox does have some issues and my best advice would be to get
> the latest build directly from Sun/Oracle. I've failed to get Win7 to
> install and have had problems getting various CAD/modelling apps
> installed on XP in Vbox on my ubuntu workstation.

Likewise, especially with the recent builds of VB. I can't get USB to
function correctly on version 3.2 so am still working on 3.1. I've
installed Windows 7 on it, but not really done much with it yet.

Agree about not diving in with Gentoo until you are more used to Linux.
I use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS at the moment, but will be moving to 10.04 as
soon as harvest is out the way!

Rather than dive in at the deep end, I would suggest using
Ubuntu/SuSE/Fedora, and buying a good book on the distro. Once you are
comfortable with the command line, then by all means have a go at the
more complicated stuff.

-- 
Jim McLaren
Cults Farm