From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0jXH-0002bT-00 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:29:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74HRaf6021502; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:27:36 GMT Received: from ece06.nas.nasa.gov (ece06.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.139.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74HLKXN022842 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:21:21 GMT Received: from ece06.nas.nasa.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ece06.nas.nasa.gov (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j74HM2M7008630; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:22:02 -0700 Message-Id: <200508041722.j74HM2M7008630@ece06.nas.nasa.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.0 04/02/2003 (gentoo 2.7.0) with nmh-1.1 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org cc: bgreen@nas.nasa.gov Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges In-reply-to: <558b73fb0508040750757dfe33@mail.gmail.com> References: <200508040843.16581.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> <200508040903.25072.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> <1123165678.13217.49.camel@baby.espersunited.com> <342e10905080407374518e99c@mail.gmail.com> <558b73fb0508040750757dfe33@mail.gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to Michael Crute message dated "Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:50:17 -0400." Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:22:02 -0700 From: Bryan Green X-Archives-Salt: 5539dd5e-c2ae-4447-a9e8-dea3c50e70c3 X-Archives-Hash: eda93f274e6be54b3befaf773068fb38 I put Gentoo on my mom's computer. I got tired of her asking me questions about her computer concerning the Windows OS, so I installed an OS *I* could help her maintain, and not feel disgusted with. Just wanted to share that... Has anyone else out there put Gentoo on their parents computers? -bryan > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:50:17 -0400 > From: Michael Crute > > At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree=20 > with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora= > =20 > and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off= > =20 > far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend=20 > Gentoo to a noob unless they where just as geeky as I. I would rather see= > =20 > normal people use distros like Mandriva and Linspire then graduate to Gento= > o=20 > when and if they are ready than to have them start at Gentoo then get pisse= > d=20 > off at their own inability to make the thing work and go back to Windoze.= > =20 > Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth. > > -Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list