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 1I6ktE-0007b3-Fq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:18:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l66AH2pF032036; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:17:02 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l66ACjsD027290 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:12:45 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so736505ugf for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:12:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XSvo5pOT4l5XB+Hafx9qqeo7G49D39DWAIn3K/hU55joT5WTaCVQeBrpV4RttHU7B0kEAWkPigkPbJBaRFg3Nx4q4GflZAxnUm5A0pFXnCwJE68LOLFvAkYZRl8Kp+7dXOfPUHYQNgc43+4JxctFuHMipxI4+EKYXFsV4+gj1Tk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YQ1OUY+Y8cHqt0BI2yiOWxj4S6FnGwERN4UOcXaW/yO1y+4cecrxS7kqRkEs2TE6wscqUz7z5h14uutzK13paiCr1qBjJ9XNeo3zKu40rYpO1WoHxuubvpxdmuk1/Sw4gSwG0zKxWxpsLWXZ+YoataKLQPn/AUYQKMm1BwlN9q0= Received: by 10.67.100.10 with SMTP id c10mr2652045ugm.1183716765105; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy ( [86.156.30.195]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q1sm549713uge.2007.07.06.03.12.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:12:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:12:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10707030907jaa9f524maef27beb2a7c9df@mail.gmail.com> <59f9c5160707040133m46b6b592obcde11d2c1e0083d@mail.gmail.com> <20070705014010.GA26335@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20070705014010.GA26335@waltdnes.org> 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 Message-Id: <200707061112.16443.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart14621270.gfodO3vqNF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 50530da5-364a-4dc6-a1b5-701b62c39ca7 X-Archives-Hash: 544b2cc8bbff8854fd7d37023f61ca4f --nextPart14621270.gfodO3vqNF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 05 July 2007 02:40, Walter Dnes wrote: > I use Gentoo precisely because it's easy. I am not a programmer, and > cannot do a manual project. I rely on others' makefiles. My > "programming expertise" consists of... [snip . . .] I echo Walter's comments on my use of Gentoo. However, I am not sure as=20 others have argued that Gentoo keeps newbies away. Well not all newbies=20 anyway. When I started using Gentoo back in 2003/04 my total experience in= =20 Linux was absolutely minimal. I had only booted Knoppix a few times. If i= t=20 wasn't for the handbook, docs and of course the forums, I would have probab= ly=20 walked away defeated. Thankfully, Gentoo was a relatively painless and=20 rewarding experience (despite that back then I was installing from a stage = 1,=20 and it was failing for a number of reasons). Having had a chance of=20 experimenting with Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu I found SUSE the easiest to=20 update/upgrade, but nothing compared with the ease of portage and its=20 configuration options. I would probably disagree that Gentoo is a dying distro - would think of it= =20 more of a maturing distro like it was mentioned earlier. The natural=20 evolution of Gentoo may be that portage hands over to paludis soon=20 as a superior package management system, but who knows? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart14621270.gfodO3vqNF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGjhV45Fp0QerLYPcRAvspAKC//lblRshTAUvILWSeidiR/I+sSACfScIX pUyXFBG6iQR8rf8FpaKBwh4= =7Tyd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart14621270.gfodO3vqNF-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list