From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0jSO-0004dQ-1K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:24:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74HM07b011817; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:22:00 GMT Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74HIIX2005494 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:18:19 GMT Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so393839rnf for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:19:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XAEiQv3UE5h+03kbp03Bi8oJvP83L+rsIAgsf41RLWx/dder52uScv9fsfwz8K+gl/RO/0dkeqvqdcW9tdknKip2bqYuFVwSs9MjGs5oFc1FBWTeQQL7Rf0aNCOa/PRAJrr7GNC47daSBcXoGpssQ7ElazoY3KUbOdu9MsI50u0= Received: by 10.38.209.24 with SMTP id h24mr927771rng; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:19:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.78.42 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:19:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <342e10905080410196a12c479@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:19:01 -0300 From: Daniel da Veiga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges In-Reply-To: <20050804163346.GA5848@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200508040843.16581.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> <200508040903.25072.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> <1123165678.13217.49.camel@baby.espersunited.com> <342e10905080407374518e99c@mail.gmail.com> <558b73fb0508040750757dfe33@mail.gmail.com> <20050804163346.GA5848@princeton.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j74HIIX2005494 X-Archives-Salt: e3fe1915-7d40-43a1-8127-68cb8e615b35 X-Archives-Hash: 1ab63218054a1062861c870bfae6fc54 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 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 $0.02, take it for what it's worth. > > > > -Mike > > > > I disagree. I think we should pit people first against OpenBSD, then > FreeBSD, then Gentoo Linux, then Debian, then SuSE, then > Fedora/Mandrake... which ever one they manage to install on the first > try (of course, following a manual) should be they one they start > from..... > > Of course, a sadistic bastard like myself (and since I am speaking > from experience, probably also masochistic) should have no say in this > matters. q= > > I kid of course. I have had at least UserLand experience with RedHat > and Solaris before I installed a *nix system on my own computer. With > a manual in hand, even the BSDs were quite easy to set up. > Unfortunately a BIOS bug in my IBM Thinkpad means that openbsd killed > it for good (or at least until a complete system wipe). > > But seriously, I don't see really problems with n00bs using Gentoo as > a starter distro, so long as the said n00bs knows the power of > google... > > Best, > > W > -- > Once you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall. > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 3 days, 23:45 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list