Hello and Happy New Year to all, I am so enamoured with Gentoo that I couldn't resist passing on this bit of trivia.
O'Reilly recently published a book called "Linux Desktop Pocket Reference". The first chapter is available for viewing on the O'Reilly website and in that chapter the author rated, from his personal experience, 5 distributions under the following categories in the process of getting Linux on the desktop: Installation, Configuration, Program Installation, Documentation (Gentoo rated 5 here, which is *totally* understandable and deserving), and finally gave a weighted average for these. The weighted averages for the 5 distros were: Fedora: 3.45 *Gentoo: 3.75* Mandriva: 3.70 Suse: 3.40 Ubuntu: 3.90 I've used all of these distros with the exception of Suse and can understand why Ubuntu rated slightly higher than Gentoo. I found it very easy to get it installed and for me, it detected all my hardware and configured everything without a glitch. However, I find it interesting to note that Gentoo scored the 2nd highest when it's supposed to be one of the most difficult distros to get installed. I admit, I did suffer some growing pains when installing Gentoo, but I still think it's the greatest because of the control it gives me and I have learned a lot about things like compiling the kernel in the process. Gentoo rocks! Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
