From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RY39l-00089m-1J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:06:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00D0221C234; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1171F21C0B0 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so2518982iae.40 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:04:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=QRsfebZMKtvTuZiYng2t1THcRzqoYTyDlasZT7YIErQ=; b=QuLQse/+wm8yYLxs80TgiQ83aTU7kDKJcYIP4hSuIaVT0WdBQbXOEgCrtwj+I+AtRJ QNBBXSRskZdc6hcuIAV6VZwF4nnwt2uOg++i4/qa3fGO0fp6YQzhn28v2AzEhLudky/b rE/XLtU5TzuGS8BXFJwaU1bvGQni6i3GOHS60= Received: by 10.43.51.69 with SMTP id vh5mr17096104icb.32.1323209082553; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from badass.gateway.2wire.net (adsl-68-123-158-239.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net. [68.123.158.239]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id wn1sm9255711igc.3.2011.12.06.14.04.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:04:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:04:39 -0800 From: ny6p01@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse Message-ID: <20111206220439.GA15412@badass.gateway.2wire.net> References: <20111205201409.GA937@gaurahari.merseine.nu> <201112052332.24643.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111206111531.5d5843bd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111206111531.5d5843bd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 5e96d9b3-df33-4061-8050-95bd4d9da4dd X-Archives-Hash: 5b675ad997df3827b501484d736755e0 On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote: > > > But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for > > beginners! > > Because Gentoo is not for beginners, there are already plenty of distros, > like Mandriva and Ubuntu, catering for first time users. Gentoo is a > "power users" distro. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray > and the blinking red light. And yet the documentation is clear enough for anyone to follow along. Which leads me to my next point: the Gentoo documentation is far and away the best of any distro I have tried. Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of accolades for his efforts. Terry