From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1232 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2004 01:20:22 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 24 Jan 2004 01:20:22 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AkCTG-0002rb-1M for arch-gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:20:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 29441 invoked by uid 50004); 24 Jan 2004 01:20:20 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-desktop-research-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5055 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2004 01:20:19 +0000 Message-ID: <401181A7.3050300@chartertn.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:18:47 +0000 From: Scott Koch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20031017 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org References: <200401200954.58818.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1074790970.1942.6.camel@localhost> <200401222145.23118.pauldv@gentoo.org> <40101891.3050107@chartertn.net> <1074816425.27013.1.camel@montu> <1074873463.18854.20.camel@rivendell> <40117298.9080803@chartertn.net> <1074905264.32318.20.camel@rivendell> In-Reply-To: <1074905264.32318.20.camel@rivendell> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Installer's Target user group X-Archives-Salt: cec885c0-2ed3-4fe8-b6f1-6fcf12b38612 X-Archives-Hash: 4623c67482f09912816454c6464198c7 foser wrote: >On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 20:14, Scott Koch wrote: > > >>I think the target should be users that are "new to Gentoo" switching >>from other linux distributions. >> >> > >Yes maybe, probably coming from MDK, RH or Suse, those are usually >pretty fresh linux users. What i really meant to say was that the people >wanting a GUI installer are the same ones that have little actual linux >knowledge (the 'i want it to be simple and just work' people) and not >the more geekish crowd that Gentoo on the other side attracts. Those >like their installs as it is, with the full power that comes with it. >They don't want spiffy UI tools that only hide whats really going on. So >you only have to target the first group. > >- foser > > >-- >gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > Maybe saying Mdk, RH, Suse type users isn't the best description. There is a vast range of skill levels amoung there users. Thinking back I used mandrake without haveing a clue of how to do anything in linux. Is this more the direction we are heading in. Have an easy but customizable setup for computers to do mainly the basics (web, mail, documents, multimedia, games?) in the fast gentoo way. -Scott -- gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org mailing list