Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

[Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

Agreed in all terms!!!

On 8/4/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
> > > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
> > > You never asked a stupid question?
> > > No I thought not.
> > > Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
> > >
> > > *sigh*
> >
> > I was of course just kidding.  I do like Gentoo but hey, it isn't the right
> > choice for everyone.  Some people I'm sure would prefer hand holding and
> > fancy GUI installers that other Distros have a seem to cator to the masses.
> >
> > DO you really think Gentoo should be the first Distro people new to Linux
> > should turn to?
> > --
> > Chris
> > Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP
> >  09:00:21 up 1 day, 14:07,  6 users,  load average: 0.33, 0.23, 0.19
> 
> My first Linux was Red Hat 8.0.  I then went to RH 9.0 and Fedora Core
> 1.  I for one would not recommend Gentoo to a person who has never used
> Linux before.  I certainly wouldn't have understood it.  Think of it as
> a test of the strong:  Newbies might choose Gentoo and run into all
> kinds of problems and ask stupid questions.  Most will get frustrated
> and either leave Linux altogether or seek out a more user-friendly
> distrobution.  The ones who stick around are the ones worth adding to
> the community.  When I first came to Gentoo I asked a lot of stupid
> questions (still do) and I get frustrated with it sometimes but I know
> that this is what I want and so I'll stick with it.  The newbies like
> that will stick around and they will ask stupid questions and learn from
> those stupid questions and you will not be able to get rid of them no
> matter how hard you try.  Linux is not for the faint of heart (that's
> what MSWindows is for.)  If someone wants to learn Linux (Gentoo) and
> stick to it then they are worthy of our time...
> 
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> 


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Daniel da Veiga
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