From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5CKWhUD028123 for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:32:44 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 13so1101703nzn for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:33:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aZJsV+Q0tivkCHt1gYz3NFzoC4W3Kj0dhaMf7voPjls1SzI1ooMlY0e/L8QfY+HMw/8L9o02Ya7dC0h5r3ZZ5t/rh/ZR0lB/4BVG1I5OKRBGvtQX/TFpIkyNQbEFR1BwqraLvty39RYj1rr905OU0jz3MuUklxEKhbWRDgKJGZU= Received: by 10.36.222.56 with SMTP id u56mr1216371nzg; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm2391248nzp.2005.06.12.13.33.03; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42AC9BFE.9040209@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:33:02 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050522) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo? References: <20050606235550.GL9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> <20050611223751.56c804cd@localhost> <5a67a16f050612130954b41fbd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5a67a16f050612130954b41fbd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7520999c-0bfa-44bb-9c0c-c4d4db72a04b X-Archives-Hash: aa8fcd5b6aef7e7d19eafd8adbc6b2a9 Athul Acharya wrote: >>So to sum it up, it's not really (for me maybe) about enterprise v. hobbyist, it's about moving ANYONE over to Linux, period. > > > Actually, I rather like to think that Gentoo is one of the very few > distributions that cares more about meeting existing Linux > [power]users' needs rather than getting any new users to Linux. I > mean lets face it, a distro that's largely DIY is hardly a good first > Linux, but an excellent second Linux and indeed thats the very reason > why I use Gentoo. Let Redhat/Fedora/Mandrake do the initial user > grab, that's what they're good at. > > Athul > OTOH, most computer users are unable to or uninterested in installing/configuring an OS. All they need is someone to setup Gentoo for them and they can basically use it like they would an MS Windows "appliance". Zac -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list