Fun thread + difficulty with gentoo

[Stephen Burke]

The first thought I have is not any application, but simply (as 
previously mentioned) all the nifty window managers, PLUS the fact that 
you don't even need a window manager, as opposed to having the damn 
windoze (TM) there to block you OUT of the actual system.

Along the same line of thinking, there are also the multiple desktops. 
At first I didn't really understand them so they seemed sort of 
pointless, but now I generally have things running all over the place 
(minimising can be so tedious), so when I must return to M$land to 
change the songs on my mp3 player or something, the FIRST feeling I get 
is one of stufling claustrophobia. Quit crowding me, billyboy. Gimme 
some room to breath!

While I'm here, I've been meaning to ask if anyone here can suggest a 
good site for working through a somewhat frustrating gentoo 
installation. (other than the actual gentoo site, which hasn't helped me 
much). After the second try (from the beginning), I have a working 
system going, all the way up to "startx" which brings me to a very basic 
x session (xterm on a black screen), but then following the instructions 
from the gentoo site doesn't seem to help much.

Emerge, which was working perfectly all through the rest of the 
installation, fails inexplicably (I can't remember the actual error 
wording because I set it aside a couple of weeks ago out of frustration, 
and it's on the same computer I'm using now on a different removable 
HD), so I haven't been able to install much of anything on it except the 
system itself.  I seem to recall someone here recently speaking very 
highly of a gentoo system of theirs, and the whole reason for the 
removable HD on this box was so I could toy with different OS's without 
having to triple- or quadruple-boot the thing (which I haven't figured 
out yet either, since each distro's version of grub seems to want to 
take over the boot proces).  I put a second HD in here, so that I could 
still have all my essential data handy no matter which system was 
booted, but this whole gentoo failure has me pretty much stumped.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
S.

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

>	Quiet, so how about a fun thread? While I spend much time telling
>people how Linux is better than Windows in many (if not all) ways, I
>frequently get the response: "So what can I do in Linux that I can't do
>in Windows?". We all know there are Windows apps that lock people into
>Windows, can anyone think of some good apps for Linux that would lock
>people in? Pretty much everything is also ported to Windows as well. Any
>ideas?
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