An overview over the Gentoo community [LWN.net]

An overview over the Gentoo community

Posted Jun 30, 2005 12:51 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
Parent article: An overview over the Gentoo community

>makes using Gentoo very easy.
Hmmm. Fun, interesting, educational, but not easy unless one is quite advanced. ;)
Several excellent websites bear mention:
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/ Is great for tracking and researching packages,
http://www.breakmygentoo.net/ For the hardcore,
but the one I enjoy the most is
http://gentoo-wiki.com/ The Random Page feature, in particular, will delight those who think they've tried it all.

Gentoo oober yoober!

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An overview over the Gentoo community

Posted Jun 30, 2005 22:09 UTC (Thu) by plauer (guest, #30619) [Link]

Those are good resources, but they are not official. breakmygentoo is a big no-no if you want any support from official Gentoo ressources since it can break your system in very subtle ways ...
The wikis are nice, but the quality of the content varies a lot. The official Gentoo documentation has on average a higher quality, but the wikis are often up-to-date on "bleeding edge" problems.
And for the easy part: I go crazy when one of those "easy-to-use" distros won't let me do things because the developers never thought of them :-)
So from my point of view Gentoo is much easier since I have full control, but I agree that beginners will not see it like that.