Dear everybody! I have one topic to discuss. I'm not native speaker in english, but I will try.
My first linux was Debian. I began using it in 1999 in fall, just because my senior course mate was using it. After that for me it was interesting to install several distros: Mandrake, Miracle, Turbo, Vine, Red Hat, Suse, Slackware. I didn't use them for a long time - I just installed them for fun, but trying to find my own distro. Before Gentoo, I used to think that Debian is better (not the best - because I'm not good at linux to say which is the best) than other distros. One year ago I tried gentoo and I feeled that maybe this is what I was looking for. Even know I use gentoo at home. I don't use linux at work - linux is my hobby. In the mean time I still try other distros to see how do they look like, but not so often as before. Saying again, I don't have strong knowledge to say which is the best linux for me, so I estimate the best linux for my only basing on the easy-to-use distro. Of course, this is a matter of taste, any person has his own favorite distro. In gentoo I liked the portage and emerge concept, that I can build my own system and make it for my hardware (if I install from stage 1). But, on the other hand emerge does for us installations, compilations, dependency checks, etc - we do not compile by hand. If I'm not wrong we can put Gentoo, Slackware and LFS distros on the same line - I mean they're all source based distros. As far as I know Slackware there is no emerge-like tools - I have to do everything manually. Here at http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major written about Slackware "...if you need help with your Linux box, find a Slackware user. A Slackware user is more likely to fix the problem than a user familiar with any other distribution...". Is it true? This is one question. Also, it seems most of current gentoo users had experience with other distro, so they have rich experience in linux, and this help them to solve linux-generic problems. In my case, I would like to learn linux as deep as possible. Is it ok if I use emerge-like, apt-get-like comfortable tools? That was my second question. What you recommend for those, who would like to learn linux from fundamentals? In order to do so, I think, learner has to do everything manually. I haven't installed LFS distro before, so I don't know is it like Slackware or not, but as the name says, this is "linux from sratch", like gentoo... I think, answers to this thread will be interesting not only for me, but also for many ML participants. Thanks in advance. askar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
