Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flame In all seriousness, if your too lazy to sit down with the minimal CD and a pile of docs for your first

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Peter van Eck
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: It recognises my Nvida card [fx 5200] but when you get to the stage where the icons dissapear as stuff loads, when the last one goes the monitor shuts off. as is't booting from a cd there's no error log and nofb didn't help. Like I said some day Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. Holy crap... good thing you are here to tell me this... guess I will have to pull Gentoo off of all my 1/2 dozen or so production servers and go back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Dave Moore
Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old way it's way better and makes you more familiar with your system I just finished (about a week ago) my first non-binary install of a linux distribution, compiling from a stage3, starting with the 2006.0 Gentoo Minimal Install CD. As

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Moser, Dan
-Original Message- From: Dave Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:35 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old way it's way better and makes you

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. You're right, Gentoo is not 'stable' [1], and it never will be stable. It is functional and reliable however. But you need to know linux, your hardware,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
--- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flame In all seriousness, if your too lazy to sit down with the minimal CD and a pile of docs for your first install then Gentoo is probably NOT for you. Also, there is no reason to go

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Antoine
Sense we're on it though, why would they put out a broken product? If you have to install gentoo from a stage tarball why devlope a live cd that can't even boot right? Maybe because the devlopers understand that if gentoo is to become populare beyond the geek squad they'll have to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 19:44 schrieb A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman: Bill Gates can sleep good...they even have voice software [8=) Stop trolling and grow up. -- --- Heiko. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard assumption that non-geek=normal -- with geek being defined by these so-called normal

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Moser, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:44 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now -Original Message- From: Dave Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Dave Moore
But of course, I'm out of here; pointless flame-fests are not my idea of a fun Friday night. Well said. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
-- Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of piling on opinions, I agree as well, after doing 15 or so compiled installs, I have moved to the installer for the simple fact of needing to speed up my deployment. My only complaint with the compiled installation is that it takes

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:32 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard assumption that

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Sullivan wrote: Amen to that. The US government has labelled me mentally disabled, and I still managed to successfully install Gentoo on three different PCs... If someone like me can do it, anyone can. Well, maybe you've *GOT* to be mentally disabled to be able to install and

[gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
* on the Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:06:14PM -0800, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman said: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin The live cd is still pretty new and could have

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin I've trying to help you at the My screen goes off on boot thread,