On Thursday 06 February 2003 9:08 am, Jozsa Kristof wrote: > As a sidenote, I'm getting fed up with the level of discussions going up > here. I always thought the gentoo distribution is meant for the power user, > not for the plain brave user (the difference is that the power user has > both the experience and the _knowledge_ to do what he/she wants). > Appearently at least the gentoo-user list is filled with people mostly > coming from the 'huh what's /proc, nevermind, let's emerge -ep world again > with -O9' part. That's getting a bit boring.. >
Who counts as a power user? I have 1-2 years experience running Linux on my desktop and no, not duel boot. Unfortunately a lot of the distributions have become quite complex, no longer using the standard config scripts for programs (wireless on redhat 7.3) and have morphed into giant binary rpm distributions. I have recently left Mandrake on my desktop (I was getting feed up with the extra configuration stuff that sometimes screws attempts to do stuff via the config files) I am soon going to re-install my laptop with something other than Redhat (Similar reason), but a project box I am using will continue to run slackware. My point to describing the different flavours of linux I have used is to backup my claim that a lot of these "simple" issues will never have had to have been dealt with by a relatively versed user on many distributions - and it was learning these fundamentals that was a major push in my installation of gentoo. I don't concider myself a power user - I don't know enough yet - but I know enough to realise that a question about make flags in a Mandrake user forum would probably be left unanswered. > Anyway, have fun with gentoo.. I'll do the same, but off-list. Good luck, > Why? To someone who has never had the luxury of say, of doing a degree in CS (I'm not saying you have or haven't, I certainly haven't (Engineering)), some of the man pages and howto's either gloss over the basics/fundamentals and concentrate on a simple "type this get it running basis" or describe them in quite technical terms that may be competely alien to many. The only solution is to write to a list and pray that someone has managed to find a better source of information or will be polite enough to explain to then where there ideas/understanding is flawed. > Christopher > > ps. if the above doesn't fit you, dont take it.. it wasn't meant for direct > offense to anyone on the list. I'm sorry if this has turned into a (bit) of a flame, but I feel this needed to be pointed out. Martyn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
