[plug] Gentoo on APC cover disc

[hatari at iinet.net.au]

Yes, Jim.....

I found that too.

I try most of those offerings, while especially looking for "ease" of use.  There are often 
"quirks" or "problems" to deal with.

Since I have tried so many I can't tell you which distro had what problem.  There was one in 
particular that annoyed me.  It should have set up the ext3 file-system (as requested) but I 
got ext2.  I only picked up that problem (by chance) at the text boot-up screen.

There was a distro based on Debian that was commissioned by some department in Spain.  
It was full of games which my wife liked.  However that too had problems because many of 
the distro system management programs failed.

FYI and FYI-PLUG
To me the real problem with Linux is the program-dependency problem.  With so many 
programs being developed from all directions (ie open-source) there aren't solid strategies to 
maintain consistency or consistent installation.  Many programs that I try to load or run have 
"dependencies".  I know that you can do things like apt-get but that maintains an "ongoing" 
update pathway (extremely annoying).  It would be great if there was some kind of procedure 
or standard that guaranteed open-source development or usage was guaranteed 1st pop (or 
very close to it). 

Sorry for the ramblings, Jim, but you got me going.

Regards,
wayne


>On 4 Jul 2007 at 19:41, Jim Householder wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just got the latest copy of APC to try out Gentoo.  The networkless 
> installation appeared to go OK, except that the user I defined was not 
> created.
> 
> I was able to use useradd to create the account, but had to manually 
> create the home directory.  Normal?  Not for RH based distros I've 
> worked with.
> 
> Then I tried, using Gnome, to configure the services running (hald 
> needed).  The script(?) failed and no services configuration window 
> appeared.  I know that it can be done from the command line.
> 
> The quality of this distro is somewhat lacking.  Has anyone else had a 
> problem with it?
> 
> Jim
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