Gentoo was chosen for me and a few others I know because of the install choices and procedures and as a test. Now that I have been using Gentoo for a few months I can honestly say that I have not found a better OS tothis date. Personally I loved the install, it was fun, informative, interesting and challenging.
just my $.02 On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:47 pm, brian connolly wrote: > Jason, > > From a business perspective... you've just set up 10 possible hurdles to > lose users and patrons. If it were Vegas, that'd be that game no one > played. > > Now let me clarify; I say business perspective, not to be confused > necessarily with revenue, because in the end user relevance is essential to > vitality and growth of any OS project. > > Brian Connolly > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Stubbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies > > On Monday 10 November 2003 12:08, brian connolly wrote: > > Bottom line: Gentoo's reputation is good... but definitely hampered by > > what > > > is generally regarded as a difficult install. You know that. > > > > Now rather than do something, per se, the typical OS dev will point to > > various reference material to "learn". They'll talk about how that's a > > good thing. They'll want the users to share in and relish their hobby. > > > > Excuse me... this isn't a hobby for me. I want to minimize the learning > > curve so as to "use" it (reread Gentoo's philosophy). > > > > Bottom line: the install is difficult, and unnecessarily so. > > Disagreed. The install isn't difficult; it's just that there are at least 4 > different methods of installation interleaved in to the one document. The > basic stage 1 install goes: > > 1) Set up networking > 2) Set up partitions > 3) Extract stage1 tarball > 4) Chroot > 5) Run bootstrap.pl > 6) emerge system > 7) emerge kernel > 8) compile kernel > 8) emerge syslog > 9) emerge cron > 10) emerge lilo/grub > > And that's the hardest of the lot! I'm not saying GLIS is a bad thing. A > lot > > of users are scared of a console. > > > Jason > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Science is an atempt to investegate the mirical of life. The Martian Chronicles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
