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 1LUkvh-0002mF-3y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:48:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55A9CE0603; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D87E0603 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B1F53F1890 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:48:46 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:48:45 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? Message-ID: <20090204164845.22261a3f@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <200902040858.23559.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49894363.8060401@comcast.net> <200902040939.33234.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <6d84fb3b7dfe750d8bc20b63968564e1.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org> <20090204154145.6b6b9f1d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs53 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-pc-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@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/O=cCy2eoRbCkmZplW_7JHp8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 280618e1-e3a7-4c4b-a8fd-846b1857d2a1 X-Archives-Hash: c4591a04b99f363dbf734e5c0395b1f0 --Sig_/O=cCy2eoRbCkmZplW_7JHp8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:19:17 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Except that what you build and maintain isn't a "distro", it's > >> a single machine. =20 > > > > Why? =20 >=20 > Do you distribute what you're building as a something for > others to use to install Linux? I don't, and none of the other > Gentoo users I know do. They're all building and maintaining > installations on individual machines. It doesn't have to be for others. What about someone maintaining a network of machines? --=20 Neil Bothwick EMail - garbage at the speed of light. --Sig_/O=cCy2eoRbCkmZplW_7JHp8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmJxu0ACgkQum4al0N1GQOtrACdEieeL0I6o5LOxLsNhOGngCsX uQMAn06lDzopwDnqUE5ozqYotSc0tfzx =MIT6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/O=cCy2eoRbCkmZplW_7JHp8--