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 1LUoJz-0006rd-D5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:26:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74CF4E07B6; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 20:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316B4E07B6 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 20:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so329070eye.10 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:26:04 -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=w0rYXqtcOC/f+KYVQTrtuos4eBD4AuDIbQu8JuWUzjI=; b=ER1f0p70cOM7ekBid5ac9VmxU1MYJ6nfhWsJJvie+1p88GYI9cNssQDvB67zhHR0sT FWbEKqGm9da9aerJVqi90Mqpe7SLUAxzYz7Mys8EVJQEBs+wRTHiLrVY5KLoj3rHIrol jZzZJ1AFB6e50VSIJQhutKRaBKPhxvnAu+kIQ= 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=UCjHFQUWZ6u+dN/PHWdiN8YbRu/gURLZiXZwnDgPz3+JylYNPMZuMtwcY/7kE8LRuX Fv3nw3yuBudxDn26FMP1mfR05gCGvt87c05HyNzJ2bcECZTM4K3ykWSSI2RDMp+zCiKU YaEEmeoOh6f525U0VXINkCBID30bjuzP6KZzs= Received: by 10.210.57.12 with SMTP id f12mr7151527eba.164.1233779164632; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:26:04 -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 u14sm4310394gvf.7.2009.02.04.12.26.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:26:03 -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 22:24:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902042224.55289.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 91fa328c-7675-4bdb-ac62-4968953f9328 X-Archives-Hash: bc139b5bfe5d71f1aeb99714697d2c61 On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:48:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Gentoo forces you to use linux in the sense that you need to > > do all the work by yourself to install it. What you describe is > > just the regular update/install process, which is simple enough > > as you said. > > It was very easy for me. =A0The first I came in tough with Gentoo was with > the 2007 DVD. =A0I booted, double clicked the installer icon, clicked > "next" a few times with checking some tickboxes too, and then emerged -e > system and world and the packages I need. You should have been around in the days when stage1 was still supported. Now that was fun. For varying definitions of "fun" of course :-) =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com