Greetings

lyonsd · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: Greetings

Hello. My name is Dave and I have plunged into the world of Gentoo Linux.

I have just installed 2004.3 on my HP laptop zd7000. I used Partition Magic to resize the existing Windows partition and created a smaller Linux parition on which I initially installed Fedora Core 3. But a colleague at work told me about Gentoo and I installed it on a crash & burn PC to try it out. After I installed it, it ran a lot quicker than Fedora Core 3 on that same PC, so I installed it on my personal laptop.

"Emerge" is pretty slick.

Well, here I am - a new Gentoo user. I'll be popping in from time to ttime to ask some questions, as well as provide some answers if I can.

Thanks.
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Maedhros · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:11 pm Post subject:

Welcome! Glad you like it.

However, not a support request - moved from Installing Gentoo. :wink:

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seank · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 686

Welcome to the Gentoo Community.

loki99 · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:43 am Post subject:

hi dave!
welcome to gentoo. it is a wonderfull distro. but be warned: it can be addictive! ;-)

happy gentooing!

mark_alec · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

Welcome to Gentoo

May you have many happy years of emerging

acasto · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:49 am Post subject:

Welcome

Some advice.... learn all the tips and tricks of portage. It can make your system wonderful, or it can tear it to peices. Lern about all the files in /etc/portage, and it's always helpful to learn about things like reverse dependencies for when you want to remove something. There's quit a few threads on the forums on the topic. I went probably a year or so without really learning some of the more specific things of portage, but now I actually put the time in learning it life has gotten a whole lot easier

-Adam
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lyonsd · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Yeah, it's addictive, but so are computers in general. I screw around with a bunch of stuf simultaneously. Right now I'm emerging openoffice on the laptop and while that's going on, I'm doing something else on my desktop under XP.

As a matter of fact, I just read the man page on emerge to see how to upgrade a package. I didn't get my question answered, so I'll be posting it in a different section of the forum if I can't find an answer searching here.
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