Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Tindal
Jonathan Smith wrote: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I'm not a developer ... and I'm not in California ... but I am a Gentoo bigot and I'm certainly willing to help out ... as are most Gentoo users/developers. [snip] I know that I can't speak for all the developers, but I for one am

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-16 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 22:36 -0500, Michael Tindal wrote: Jonathan Smith wrote: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I'm not a developer ... and I'm not in California ... but I am a Gentoo bigot and I'm certainly willing to help out ... as are most Gentoo users/developers. [snip] I know

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Jonathan Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark S Petrovic wrote: Is there a principal Gentoo developer in Northern or Southern California (preferred) to whom I can pay a visit to gain a deeper understanding of who the Gentoo team is, what they are trying to accomplish, and how? If you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Cummings
If you'll settle for email instead of a visit, I'm sure there's [number_of_devs+1] * opinions on what's being attempted/accomplished that could be sent your way :) On Wednesday 15 June 2005 01:10 pm, Mark S Petrovic wrote: Good day. I am about to embark on a serious project and I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark S Petrovic wrote: I am about to embark on a serious project and I am considering Gentoo as the platform. My luck with installation, on which I've spent several solid days, thus far has been mixed, and I'm willing to hold off believing it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Dennis Allison
There is a learning curve, but on the whole gentoo is my distribution of choice. You may find it helpful to do a stage3 installation before you attempt a stage1 installation. Vanilla stage3 installations take much less time and give you the opportunity to learn the process. On Wed, 15 Jun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:10 -0700, Mark S Petrovic wrote: Good day. I am about to embark on a serious project and I am considering Gentoo as the platform. My luck with installation, on which I've spent several solid days, thus far has been mixed, and I'm willing to hold off believing it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Daniel Armyr
Or do like the rest of us did when we started and ask speciffic questions on the forums. Well frmulated questions usually recieve answers withing a few hours, sometimes even less. --DA On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:15:26 -0400 Jonathan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Cummings
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 13:26, Dennis Allison wrote: There is a learning curve, but on the whole gentoo is my distribution of choice. You may find it helpful to do a stage3 installation before you attempt a stage1 installation. Vanilla stage3 installations take much less time and give you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:38 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: On Wednesday 15 June 2005 13:26, Dennis Allison wrote: There is a learning curve, but on the whole gentoo is my distribution of choice. You may find it helpful to do a stage3 installation before you attempt a stage1 installation.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I'm not a developer ... and I'm not in California ... but I am a Gentoo bigot and I'm certainly willing to help out ... as are most Gentoo users/developers. The documentation and forums are excellent, as are the IRC channels. As far as installation is concerned, the complexity pretty much depends

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Jonathan Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I'm not a developer ... and I'm not in California ... but I am a Gentoo bigot and I'm certainly willing to help out ... as are most Gentoo users/developers. [snip] I know that I can't speak for all the developers,