On 7/8/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is if you focus on usability for newbies, you'll focus
less on features and customization, or you'll have to find a way to
hide this customizability because customization confuses newbies, and
spending time dancing around the lesser
On Thursday 05 July 2007 02:40, Walter Dnes wrote:
I use Gentoo precisely because it's easy. I am not a programmer, and
cannot do a manual project. I rely on others' makefiles. My
programming expertise consists of...
[snip . . .]
I echo Walter's comments on my use of Gentoo. However, I
Jerry McBride wrote:
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote:
070704 Colleen Beamer wrote:
Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would
stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am
looking for.. I am
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my
expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an
RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it
against a bunch of
On 7/5/07, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my
expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an
RPM package for a program I wanted, where
On 7/5/07, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my
expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an
RPM package for a program I wanted, where
On 7/4/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
blatant bias
I
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:07:24AM -0700, Grant wrote:
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would
stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am
looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn.
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On Tuesday 03 July 2007 09:07:24 Grant wrote:
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
Is
Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would
stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am
looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn.
I second this sentiment. Since starting to use Gentoo in 2004,
070704 Colleen Beamer wrote:
Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would
stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am
looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn.
I second this sentiment. Since
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote:
070704 Colleen Beamer wrote:
Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would
stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am
looking for.. I am looking for a distro to
Jerry McBride wrote:
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote:
070704 Colleen Beamer wrote:
Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would
stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
Is everyone still toeing that line? The Gentoo Weekly
On 7/3/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
Is everyone
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
Is everyone still toeing that line? The Gentoo Weekly
On 7/3/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP
Hey Mark,
Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes
when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I
have to find a new distro, where will I go? Is Debian the only other
meta-distro out there? It's
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote:
Hey Mark,
Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes
when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I
have to find a new distro, where will I go? Is Debian the only other
meta-distro out there? It's
Hello Grant,
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
What decline in the number of users? Where
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:34 +0200
Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm surprised I haven't heard more about Sabayon on this list, just as if
the real Gentoo users feel it's a treason.
Thierry
It is nothing of that kind. These, simply, is not the Sabayon list, but the
Gentoo
On Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007, Grant wrote:
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
no.
gentoo was
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:07:24 -0700
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a
Grant wrote:
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
Is everyone still toeing that line? The
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:41:34 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I'm surprised I haven't heard more about Sabayon on this list, just as if
the real Gentoo users feel it's a treason.
Not treason. Just inferior, leechers and off-topic...
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Bo Andresen
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On Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote:
Hey Mark,
Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes
when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I
have to find a new distro, where will I
I think gentoo is stuck with the release of new tools, new ideas..
I've been worried about the Weekly Newsletter too, but you only have
to read planet.gentoo.org to see that the wheel stills moving on, and
stills healthy. I think there's a lot more gentoo for the years to
come.
On 7/3/07, Grant
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