Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:16:58 +0000:
> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 01:49, Richard Fish wrote: > >> I'm starting to suspect everybody is a "ricer". > > Er, what's one of those? I assume it's an Americanism. The term is borrowed from the automotive scene, where "ricer" refers to those that are into the performance scene -- particularly mods like racing decals, dual exhaust pipe ends, and the like, that are designed to /look/ impressive (to that set, anyway), but don't actually raise performance. Wictionary and Wikipedia both have entries in this context: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ricer Unfortunately, use in this context apparently hasn't made it into most dictionaries (at least those listed at onelook.com), as most only list the term in the sense of wiktionary definition 1 (a cooking utensil). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricer It's quite popular among users of binary distributions to mock Gentoo as a ricer distribution. One must admit such folks will be attracted to Gentoo, but of course as users, we know there are other reasons to use it as well -- including on the technical side the amount of possible customization, thus appealing to the power user who likes being in control, regardless of how interested in performance they may or may not be, and on the social side, a relatively large/active/helpful user community and rather more (quantity) and more useful documentation than is available for many/most distributions. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
