Re: Which distro for you

From: Tommy S. (noway_at_no.nix)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:24:26 +0100

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:08:53 GMT, Bruce Coryell <bcoryell@chesco.com>
wrote:

>Cute app: I tried it and came up with Fedora, which I am, in fact,
>running. I still want to get to the point where I can use one of the
>more technical distros like Slackware or Gentoo.

I have tried gentoo... for me that was just too much of hassle. There
was no way I could get it running as I am a linux n00b connecting via
wireless.. If I hadn't had outside help it would never have worked for
me. :-)

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