[wplug] Whats an Installfest?

Zachary Uram netrek at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 02:29:34 EDT 2005


On 9/11/05, Richard Farina <r.farina at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> As a VERY avid gentoo user, I still recommend newbies and neophytes to
> use distros such as Fedora Core or <fill in simple GUI filled distro
> here>. Things like Fedora Core and SuSe and many other distro's are
> much easier to install, and require much less working knowledge of linux
> to simply get running and usable. Gentoo builds everything from source
> and demands much to be done by the user manually especially for
> installation. Gentoo 2005.1 Live CD is supposed to have a beta version
> of the NEW graphical install, I've yet to personally test it.
> 
> Anyone with a good working knowledge of linux that knows what I mean by
> RPM HELL might like gentoo, I know I do.



Or one can run Debian and not have to worry about RPM HELL or having to 
build everything from source. ;-)

Zach
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