Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

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

The facts are:

- Internet is powerful.
- Gentoo and internet talk like friends.
- If you can read and surf the web, you can use almost any program
with a fair documentation and bit of geekness.
- Gentoo is widely documented.
- There's always us to point newbies to RTFM and/or search at Google
:) at the second mail they'll think better and search twice before
asking another question and try everything before asking us again.

In no time, you'll get a power user answering questions instead of
asking. That's evolution baby!

On 8/4/05, Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
> > At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree
> > with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora
> > and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off
> > far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend
> > Gentoo to a noob unless they where just as geeky as I. I would rather see
> > normal people use distros like Mandriva and Linspire then graduate to Gentoo
> > when and if they are ready than to have them start at Gentoo then get pissed
> > off at their own inability to make the thing work and go back to Windoze.
> > Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> 
> I disagree. I think we should pit people first against OpenBSD, then
> FreeBSD, then Gentoo Linux, then Debian, then SuSE, then
> Fedora/Mandrake... which ever one they manage to install on the first
> try (of course, following a manual) should be they one they start
> from.....
> 
> Of course, a sadistic bastard like myself (and since I am speaking
> from experience, probably also masochistic) should have no say in this
> matters. q=
> 
> I kid of course. I have had at least UserLand experience with RedHat
> and Solaris before I installed a *nix system on my own computer. With
> a manual in hand, even the BSDs were quite easy to set up.
> Unfortunately a BIOS bug in my IBM Thinkpad means that openbsd killed
> it for good (or at least until a complete system wipe).
> 
> But seriously, I don't see really problems with n00bs using Gentoo as
> a starter distro, so long as the said n00bs knows the power of
> google...
> 
> Best,
> 
> W
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