I have been for a year on gentoo and I recently subscribed
to this list. To
introduce myself, I am a psychologist with no studies in
computing and I have
been using gentoo for a year now. I very much apologise if I
am telling
something out of context.
A Divendres 01 Juny 2007, Ted Kosan va escriure:
> A few months ago I posted an alternative solution to
the Gentoo newbie
> confusion problem. I have put together the following
Gentoo installation
> materials which are specifically designed to guide
newbies through the
> Gentoo installation process in a thorough and
unambiguous way:
I have been reading your materials and I find them really
good. In fact, I
will give your materials to a friend of mine (if this is all
right with you)
so she can install gentoo on her own.
A Dimecres 06 Juny 2007, Josh Saddler va escriure:
> I was a complete newcomer to Linux; Gentoo was the
first distro that I
> successfully installed (having unsuccessfully used
crappy Ubuntu LiveCDs
> late in 2004). That was in '05. I had never used the
command line
> before. Gentoo was a plunge into the deep end of the
pool for me, but as
> soon as I installed it, I was able to keep it and use
it as my primary
> (within a few months *only*) OS.
My first experience is similar to this one. I had no idea
what I was doing
when I first installed gentoo and no understanding of, for
example, what
chroot meant. I find the handbook really really good as I
was able to
successfully install gentoo without grasping the meaning of
what I was doing
while, at the same time, enabling me to understand it
afterwards. At the same
time, I believe that Ted materials have information I wish I
had when I first
installed gentoo: they are not general materials on
"gnu/linux" but a
detailed explanation on how to install gentoo giving some
context on what is
being done.
Ted: please, let me know if it is all right with you if I
make private copies
of the text.
Cheers!
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I am currently updating the book to work with Gentoo release
2007.0 for an
online class of 10-17 year olds I am teaching.
The updates should be finished within a week and here is the
site that will
house the updated version of the book when it is ready: