On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:53 PM, »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:31:35 -0500 > Henson Sturgill <henson.gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm new to Gentoo, but really loving the amount of control it >> provides (I'm guessing all Gentoo-users are control freaks?) During >> my initial install, I forgot to enable tmpfs -- though it was clearly >> printed in the manual. >> >> While looking for a solution, I saw countless forum posts from users >> with the same "problem". Which makes me wonder.. >> >> Why not patch the default config to have these items enabled? >> >> Is it a legacy thing, a way to force users into reading documentation >> and becoming more self sufficient, or are we just trying to stay true >> to the upstream developers? Maybe something else? > > I'm not completely sure, but I believe it's just the config that comes > from upstream. For Gentoo users who want a kernel automagically > configured, there's genkernel. > > Welcome to Gentoo! Have fun! :) > >
Many Gentooligans start with a kernel-seed :) http://kernel-seeds.org/seeds/64_bit/gentoo/ http://kernel-seeds.org/working.html Yes, have fun, David
