Handbook:Parts/Installation/About/it

Benvenuto
Prima di tutto, benvenuto su Gentoo. Stai per entrare in un mondo di scelte e di performance. Durante l'installazione di Gentoo, ciò diventerà chiaro molte volte - gli utenti possono scegliere quanto compilare per conto proprio, come installare Gentoo, quale system logger usare, etc.

Gentoo è una veloce, moderna meta-distribuzione con un design pulito e flessibile. Gentoo è costruita attorno al software libero e non nasconde ai suoi utenti cosa si cela sotto il cofano. Portage, il sistema di manutenzione dei pacchetti che usa Gentoo, è scritto in Python, il che significa che l'utente può facilmente visualizzare e modificare il codice sorgente. Il sistema di packaging di Gentoo usa il codice sorgente (sebbene il supporto per i pacchetti precompilati è incluso) e la configurazione avviene attraverso regolari files di testo. In altre parole, apertura su tutti i fronti.

It is very important that everybody understands that choices are what makes Gentoo run. We try not to force users into anything they don't like. If anyone believes otherwise, please bug report it.

How is the installation structured
The Gentoo Installation can be seen as a 10-step procedure, corresponding to the next set of chapters. Each step results in a certain state:

Whenever a certain choice is presented the handbook will try to explain the pros and cons of each choice. Although the text then continues with a default choice (identified by "Default: " in the title), the other possibilities will be documented as well (marked by "Alternative: " in the title). Do not think that the default is what Gentoo recommends. It is however what Gentoo believes most users will use.

Sometimes an optional step can be followed. Such steps are marked as "Optional: " and are therefore not needed to install Gentoo. However, some optional steps are dependent on a previously made decision. The instructions will inform the reader when this happens, both when the decision is made, and right before the optional step is described.

What are the options
Gentoo can be installed in many different ways. It can be downloaded and installed from one of Gentoo's Installation CDs, from a distribution already installed, from a non-Gentoo bootable CD (such as Knoppix), from a netbooted environment, from a rescue floppy, etc.

This document covers the installation using a Gentoo Installation CD or, in certain cases, netbooting.

We also provide a Gentoo installation tips and tricks document that might be useful to read as well.

Troubles
If a problem is found in the installation (or in the installation documentation), please visit our bug tracking system and check if the bug is known. If not, please create a bug report for it so we can take care of it. Do not be afraid of the developers who are assigned to the bugs - they (generally) don't eat people.

Note though that, although this document is architecture-specific, it might contain references to other architectures as well. This is due to the fact that large parts of the Gentoo Handbook use source code that is common for all architectures (to avoid duplication of efforts and starvation of development resources). We will try to keep this to a minimum to avoid confusion.

If there is some uncertainty whether or not the problem is a user-problem (some error made despite having read the documentation carefully) or a software-problem (some error we made despite having tested the installation/documentation carefully) everybody is welcome to join on irc.freenode.net. Of course, everyone is welcome otherwise too as our chat channel covers the broad Gentoo spectrum.

Speaking of which, if there are any additional questions regarding Gentoo, check out the Frequently Asked Questions article. There are also FAQs on the Gentoo Forums.