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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GwR7R-0006m4-7T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:38:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBIMVeop006984; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:31:40 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBIMQZtD010769 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:26:36 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4471A8D53 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:26:34 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:26:34 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? Message-ID: <20061218222634.2c1d7a6b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200612182207.55121.sapiens.dyslexia@gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10612180647g6ac243ebm9cfa8b79a5aeb3b5@mail.gmail.com> <200612190042.22724.mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com> <20061218202906.GB5634@sympatico.ca> <200612182207.55121.sapiens.dyslexia@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_=P_1z6ndddUjk/VmiAna7nQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 433e5d03-4b0b-46be-8e2a-61a0691d4eeb X-Archives-Hash: 35c56ec366e97cdc5a3a22c898561b0e --Sig_=P_1z6ndddUjk/VmiAna7nQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:07:54 +0100, Roman Naumann wrote: > People who're new to Linux, especially naturally unexperienced teens > will have a rough time if they try gentoo linux. Even if they learn > fast.. especially the fact that you need a whole day to have a running > installation kills motivation. A whole day? It hasn't been like that for a long time. I installed this laptop about 18 months ago, using a stage 3 tarball and a GRP CD. I went from blank disc to KDE desktop in a little over an hour. --=20 Neil Bothwick SCSI: System Can't See It --Sig_=P_1z6ndddUjk/VmiAna7nQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFhxWaum4al0N1GQMRAnimAJ4ifeYE75IMmpgTjuXlUpEw3Po6agCfbYSc kdIb8LP6K81lWnde5Uov3PQ= =fbOQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_=P_1z6ndddUjk/VmiAna7nQ-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list