Larry Lines wrote:
I learned Linux by
installing and hacking and suffering over Gentoo. Exactly one year
after installing Gentoo, I was in Hong Kong building and programming for
a Linux cluster. There is no other distribution that compresses the
learning curve like that. I still can't figure out what is supposed to
be easier about running Redhat or Fedora. Sure installation is easier
but then you don't know where anything is and you can't tweak anything
easily.
And that's precisely because a whole generation of RHCEs knows *exactly*
where everything is on a Red Hat or Fedora system, and Gentoo puts
everything somewhere else. :) If I were an RHCE, I'd have just as much
trouble customizing and tweaking a Gentoo (or Debian) box as you would
on a Fedora system. I know ... I've flunked the dang RHCE exam *twice*
for that very reason! :) It's about repetition, muscle memory, rote
learning, etc. -- not about Red Hat being "better" than Gentoo or the
other way around.
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http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/
If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits
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