i was just wondering how gentoo is for a pritty good linux user but a bad linux installer? and whats the difference between the x86 and the other stuff and yada yada....plz explain and leave a post for a good dl site...thx 1.4 amd pos mobo 2 gigs ddr 2 21inch montiors radeon 9700 pro and one of those rubber, keyboards that you can roll into a ball

Gentoo is difficult and time consuming to install, but if you follow the guide, it's not too hard, and you'll learn about your system in the proccess. In the end you'll probably be better off than a RedHat or Mandrake user because Gentoo would force you to know how things work. If you have any touble, the forums are a great resource. x86 is for 386, 486, Pentium, PII, K62, K63, PIII, athlon, etc. CPUs. Other processors exist that are completely incompatible with x86, like Mac CPUs, DEC (now owned by Compaq, owned by HP) Alpha, and a bunch of others. Your results may vary, but I get very fast downloads from http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ and http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo

oh thx...i downloaded it form http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo and got the only cd it takes to install (is that rite? only 1 installer cd?) in about 400 kbs a second...not bad speed at all... 1.4 amd pos mobo 2 gigs ddr 2 21inch montiors radeon 9700 pro and one of those rubber, keyboards that you can roll into a ball