MazTaim's Journal: Rock Linux...Are you Experienced?

My overall first impression of the distribution is that it lacks some of the polished documentation that Gentoo offered. There is no explanation of where files go when you do certain steps.

I was honestly afraid that when I did "./scripts/Build-Target" it would totally trash my current setup. Turns out it didn't, but it did leave me stumped as to where all the "builds" wound up installed. After doing some searches, I believe they are in a folder called "VS" under the packages sub-directory. Problem is, linux doesn't think it's a file or directory. In fact I have no clue why "ls" shows it in the first place....

Documentation. Plain old documentation. Although there is a users guide, there really isn't any good meat and bones to the document.

If you look at Gentoo's Documentation, you get not only EXACT command lines needed to get Gentoo built, but you also get some useful information as to what each command does, where files wind up, a good dose of caveats and some possible stumbling blocks to watch out for.

ROCK Linux gives you a listing of what to do, but it isn't quite in the order you need to do them in. There seems to be a lot of jumping back and forth within the document itself. I also don't feel comfortable with some of the commands as they really don't explain what they do EXACTLY. As I stated before, it doesn't have the same polish as Gentoo.

Am I mad about that? No. As with any young distribution, it takes some serious time, trial and error before you get better documentation.

Am I giving up on ROCK? No. I haven't even started to bother people on the mailing lists or on irc.

Looks like it's time to do some information digging...