Linked by Paul Hankes Drielsma on Tue 15th Apr 2003 06:40 UTC
I can't take anymore comments like "Debian/Gentoo/OpenBSD/etc. are not good/user-friendly because they lack a graphical installer." Searching the web, I couldn't find a comprehensive site describing the good and the bad about graphical installers for various OSes throughout the years, so in this article I hope to debunk a few of the myths on the basis of my own personal and professional experience.
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Even tough Gentoo has a very elitish feel to it, it is more simple than, say, red hat. The only stuff I had to learn was how to configure pppd, XFree and which gcc flag does what, when I first installed gentoo.
My cable ISP and almost all ISPs of Israel have some curious setup - you must run PPTP/PPPD over DHCP-ed interface to connect to the internet. Yes, exactly like this. In Windows it's configured in two clicks. It's a hell to configure this in Linux. Is Gentoo installer able to cope with that? Does it contain pptp client?
Add compiling kernel to the mix (which I had known about before) and "things you have to know for installing gentoo" list is complete. Rest is blindly following install document
Yep, really little list... Makes Gentoo a nice first distribution for a masochist newbie... :-((((