In my years using Gentoo I’ve learned a lot. I’m going to share it with everyone (whether you like it or not):
In no particular order…
- It isn’t necessary to completely wipe clean your disk to fix a perceived problem in your installation (even if you allocate only 4gb instead of 40 for /).
- Never downgrade glibc.
- Always use Google when you’ve got a problem.
- ALWAYS use Bugzilla
- Join Gentoo🙂
- Ignore flamewars
- Don’t ignore -core mail or you’ll miss out on important data, like, Gentoo is a foundation? And it’s got a council? *g*
- Disable root logins, ssh version 1, and password logins in sshd_config; force ssh key access
- Backup your data
- ADMIT NOTHING!!!!!!!
- Don’t take things too seriously
- Take the serious things seriously
There’s so much more, but it would take far too long to list.