-Mike
On 8/4/05, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Agreed in all terms!!!
On 8/4/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
> > > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
> > > You never asked a stupid question?
> > > No I thought not.
> > > Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
> > >
> > > *sigh*
> >
> > I was of course just kidding. I do like Gentoo but hey, it isn't the right
> > choice for everyone. Some people I'm sure would prefer hand holding and
> > fancy GUI installers that other Distros have a seem to cator to the masses.
> >
> > DO you really think Gentoo should be the first Distro people new to Linux
> > should turn to?
> > --
> > Chris
> > Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP
> > 09:00:21 up 1 day, 14:07, 6 users, load average: 0.33, 0.23, 0.19
>
> My first Linux was Red Hat 8.0. I then went to RH 9.0 and Fedora Core
> 1. I for one would not recommend Gentoo to a person who has never used
> Linux before. I certainly wouldn't have understood it. Think of it as
> a test of the strong: Newbies might choose Gentoo and run into all
> kinds of problems and ask stupid questions. Most will get frustrated
> and either leave Linux altogether or seek out a more user-friendly
> distrobution. The ones who stick around are the ones worth adding to
> the community. When I first came to Gentoo I asked a lot of stupid
> questions (still do) and I get frustrated with it sometimes but I know
> that this is what I want and so I'll stick with it. The newbies like
> that will stick around and they will ask stupid questions and learn from
> those stupid questions and you will not be able to get rid of them no
> matter how hard you try. Linux is not for the faint of heart (that's
> what MSWindows is for.) If someone wants to learn Linux (Gentoo) and
> stick to it then they are worthy of our time...
>
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