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 1RYf34-0001rE-AE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:34:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66F0A21C0B4; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F7321C18D for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkat8 with SMTP id t8so1930281bka.40 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:31:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/wewe4nOHrcBnScK64fgGGlxqSJdOGdPrrAHc4cEXG4=; b=BT18eixE0U74JTU16OSzs+DAzIZjHzHkUHtMcGqLfSRlAgMpIGk1APx3M5JIx+JCp+ Ln9dcdT+DYnx6+cDXSZU/IyGDDsoroeVIJ6kNntLc2xr4zGIKNI9ljzIpvfkz87P5FB4 Xp7pyx8QOoTe+6p+7hUttv2z+Nbk+e8LExmyo= Received: by 10.204.156.137 with SMTP id x9mr767768bkw.35.1323354683282; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l5sm3687043bkv.9.2011.12.08.06.31.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:31:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:31:14 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse Message-ID: <20111208163114.2492a275@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20111205201409.GA937@gaurahari.merseine.nu> <201112052332.24643.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111206111531.5d5843bd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20111206220439.GA15412@badass.gateway.2wire.net> <4EDF8FA5.7070002@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 X-Archives-Salt: ddd60355-429a-4dc5-8241-350534b6f924 X-Archives-Hash: ae1da27f30bdc4f33bc669fbc4b3c27f On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 01:55:20 -0500 LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Claudio Roberto Fran=C3=A7a Pereira > wrote: >=20 > > Going back to Ubuntu bashing, I think that the multiple versions, > > multiple repositories, multiple software choices (gnome 2, then > > unity, for example, hal then no hal) get in the way of the newbie > > user. Gentoo solves that by making the user understand what he's > > doing, how he's system works. >=20 > But at least the user should be know what he is going to do in the > only way possible - CLI! >=20 That's not a workable approach in the big wide world out there. It's simplistic taken to the point of extreme. --=20 Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com