Anybody know when the next one is? I have a freshly installed Gentoo machine and I can't do a damn thing with it. I've spent hours browsing forums but have yet to successfully configure my sound card, set up permissions or even install OpenOffice. I'm left with a 3.4ghz amd64 that can do little more than check email and browse the Internet. In short, I am in desperate need of help from fellow geeks with more Linux experience than I. Any help?

9/21/2005 8:44:45 PM

should have gotten xp

9/21/2005 8:47:52 PM

http://lug.ncsu.edu/

9/21/2005 10:27:09 PM

http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54&swfSize=1

[Edited on October 7, 2005 at 8:40 PM. Reason : this link is better http://cache.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/switchlinux5.swf]

10/7/2005 8:35:34 PM

I'd seriously recommend sticking with Windows.

or if you're running from adware and shit, try a Mac

Linux has nothing to offer inexperienced users, it is a big fucking headache and unless you want the level of transparency and flexibility it offers (and obviously you are in no position to if you can't figure out how to install OpenOffice!!1), then you are better off with a Windows or Mac computer that you have a snowball's chance in hell of troubleshooting if you screw something up

Linux on the desktop is a myth, or at best a prophecy unfufilled as of yet.

10/7/2005 10:31:46 PM

If you are having problems with that, Gentoo is the wrong distro.

You should try Ubuntu.

10/8/2005 12:18:18 AM

mandriva, SuSe, and Fedora are fairly user-friendly as well

gentoo sounds like too much of a headache, heard it takes about 3 days to setup, never messed with it myself

my fedora (core 4) was up and running in 45, including partitioning

win xp, including partitioning, takes.. roughly 2-3 hours.. partitioning ntfs takes a damn long time, atleast the way the windows install disk does it

if you really want to keep gentoo, go find a book on how to install it or go look up tutorials online

portage is supposed to be nice
but all distros have their equiv.. apt-get, yum, yast..

[Edited on October 8, 2005 at 1:03 AM. Reason : ..]

10/8/2005 1:02:51 AM

gentoo has the most extensive, USEFUL, documentation of an OS I've ever seen. read it. gentoo.org

10/8/2005 5:34:57 AM