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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GMFma-00076C-Nc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:14:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8A3CVPq008156; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:12:31 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8A37IBm025215 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:07:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261971FD1 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:07:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id vkO0MN6mNZ7O for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:07:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.2] (ppp-70-253-146-120.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [70.253.146.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62031FB5 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:07:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Zac Slade To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The Real Darkside... Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 22:07:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200609091503.58445.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <20060910132121.79503574.nick@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060910132121.79503574.nick@rout.co.nz> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609092207.12872.krakrjak@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 1cd9b107-aba6-4522-a3a0-34f20c3ff122 X-Archives-Hash: 4b022e95cd586cffc0ef51651aae973b On Saturday 09 September 2006 20:21, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:03:58 -0400 > By the time he went to bed it was running and he'd been on the net using > firefox and checked that runescape (online java game) worked. By the > time I got up this morning he was setting up his RSS feeds in kontact > and configuring various other bits. Heck yeah! If everyone knew about Kontact....... I demo it and KStars every chance I get. > Pretty good I thought. Not sure whether it says something about Miles, > or about SuSE's ease of installation (probably both). He has used linux > before, and is pretty computer literate (gaining a "High Distinction" > in an international exam, batting against kids 2 years older), but > neither those exams nor school do much to prepare you for installing a > different OS. We've come a long way in the last 6 years. I think even further than the proceeding years. Suse 10.1 is really a landmark. I say that from my Gentoo installation, but they really did something right with that release. -- Zac Slade krakrjak@volumehost.net ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list