Thinking of trying Gentoo

[bryansmith]

Hi all,

I have decided that I am going to try and tackle Gentoo this week. I was wondering...for a novice/intermediate Linux user, which stage would I be best to go with. Any other tips or pointers?

I am also on a bandwidth restrictions so how much downloading would I need to do if I wanted a system with x.org and xfce and some apps like gaim, mplayer and so on.

Thanks,
Bryan

[jaboua]

I think the stage3 is the easiest one, and stage2 is pretty close but will take a day more... If you don't care of too much optimalisations, I would go for a stage3. Stage1 may take some time, from what I've heard three days on a modern computer to get the base system up... About the bandwitdh, you can use "emerge --fetchonly xorg-x11 xfce4 mplayer gaim" to fetch the sources without compiling them, and then later on "emerge xorg-x11 xfce4 mplayer gaim" to start compiling the sources.

Myself I've tried stage2 and stage3, but for the moment I use stage3.