From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUjiz-0000UR-UO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:31:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3261CE0AB8; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f10.google.com (mail-ew0-f10.google.com [209.85.219.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C097CE0AB8 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so2436106ewy.10 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:04:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=hSdQCuIG0xbtYBZ34gloH7XPVjiidfogK/0lIrhTF+Y=; b=V59+s8KQDXe3TOHE+lN/QBXJAYbj/JB5Y6o2LXAmLeesRoxluW3nIMrJu+MIhbI1sT 7U6xhyZjKNd8pJhcg13ikBo+hHsD33gAsgeCwAlgHZeIC91kGXioTXHzu1blaDtg7FIY 8RJg8g1fOM+GMES2CT+N32iP9VKSTcZOT6nl4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=buHYSfGLvPLXmQzYpagBazoTlmFGA8Co6aCHSOxNAlS2YmqFZxvzUL29S0uPduSU2S Ax5QYtIrVUidZdyMnMcYU3RQB105I2vj8c1pppar1L0hTDeDfcpNbJ/OEq0cDk7M6P7Z fnHCJqeWULjmtzn7v9CkJvseivR64WQfn18/A= Received: by 10.210.144.3 with SMTP id r3mr1027873ebd.144.1233756144788; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.20.0.5? (196-210-140-105-wblv-esr-3.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.105]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x6sm167634gvf.12.2009.02.04.06.02.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:02:24 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:01:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1233751342.4596.8.camel@silversword> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902041601.19658.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 719cf8ec-13f4-45f6-9b89-c6bf7e0a932b X-Archives-Hash: 4019e6eb9b494e108f5567b2b83db3fe On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:19:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Sebasti=C3=A1n Magr=C3=AD wrote: > > Also, Gentoo is a great school. If you want to learn how a Linux system > > works, and really want to learn about Unix systems, then Gentoo is the > > best for you. > > I don't get that argument. I didn't learn how Linux or Unix works with > Gentoo. I didn't even find my prior knowledge of Unix and Linux of much > use either. Typing "emerge package" and "dispatch-conf" doesn't offer > me much knowledge. It's as simple as Debian in this regard. > > If I wanted a "learn Unix" distro, I would be using Slackware :P s/Slackware/Linux From Scratch/ there ya go, fixed that for ya :-) =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com