Where is the installer? For a
number of reasons*, I decided on Another point is that the handbook
Gentoo linux for our little lab. seems to be imagining you in the
One activity for a few university gentoo minimal install gnu/linux
graduates involved was looking at environment, refering to the
the install process itself, famous Handbook on another computer and
internet joke that it is. tapping away on a keyboard console.
But this is not even what they
Gentoo doesn't have an installer**. present, nor would you really
It offers minimal or live USB expect to end up like this. For one
gnu/gentoo linux images which can the livedvd/usb they provide
be used... As usb drive gnu/linux, (though their website claims it
for purposes including getting the does not have one) is just a fully
gentoo distribution/building the fledged squashfs KDE plasma. So in
linux kernel onto another device. practice you are looking at... The
The lack of a separate installer Handbook in Konqueror, and have a
per se seems to be a point of Konsole open (though you could
confusion. incidentally install your
preference on top). You could set
**Or actually, you yourself are the up emacs and be doing it from _
gentoo install wizard. emacs' shell and eww modes. In
practice I am re-documenting a
The infamous Gentoo Handbook babies subset of the Handbook into (an
the reader through five or so execute-maybe -able) org doc.
titanic pages of a
choose-your-own-adventure novel, *Reasons
mixing common usage knowledge
amoung *nix-folk and gentoo idioms -Gentoo, aside from the
without much distinction between installation Experience is
the two, but a reasonable amount of synonymous to its portage package
contextual exposition. build system. I am against python
as a C program, but the gentoo
My biggest gripes would probably developers have really done
include the inducement to use nano. yeoman's work making this kind of
What the heck. I guess as the build/dependencies orchestration a
singular least interesting text breeze (if
editor in existance, they are sort /etc/portage/package.use/ etc is
of dodging talking about vi or configured properly...!). I
emacs usage. basically don't want to go near
emacs' alternate community package
lists at this point, and I have
steered completely clear of
programming language mock-cran
so-called dependency management.
Gentoo ebuilds I accept as an
approach. Further I like its
overlay system. It was a breeze to
set up sddm pointing to your choice
of a few themed wms, or KDE plasma.
I also want to check out Gentoo's
Funtoo's non-systemd gnome.
-(Not that I was planning on it for
user purposes in this case anyway,
but the openbsd installer results
in a consistent bewildering
post-boot crash (in single user
mode too) on the profoundly normal
machines. I should probably post a
mail about that.)
-GNU/Linux has good name
recognition (as 'linux'). I have
some ecumenical if not particularly
practiced loyalty/affection towards
GNU/rms.
