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From: Paul Kain <paul.kain@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 00:20:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <451ba79205080415205d411666@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508041722.j74HM2M7008630@ece06.nas.nasa.gov>

My girlfriend, who has never used windows properley before, let alone
linux, uses my server to irc with using irssi

no gui, all command line, hardc0re girlfriend... not really but damn I wish...

On 8/4/05, Bryan Green <bgreen@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> I put Gentoo on my mom's computer.  I got tired of her asking me questions
> about her computer concerning the Windows OS, so I installed an OS *I* could
> help her maintain, and not feel disgusted with.  Just wanted to share that...
> 
> Has anyone else out there put Gentoo on their parents computers?
> 
> -bryan
> 
> > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:50:17 -0400
> > From: Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com>
> 
> >
> > At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree=20
> > with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora=
> > =20
> > and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off=
> > =20
> > far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend=20
> > Gentoo to a noob unless they where just as geeky as I. I would rather see=
> > =20
> > normal people use distros like Mandriva and Linspire then graduate to Gento=
> > o=20
> > when and if they are ready than to have them start at Gentoo then get pisse=
> > d=20
> > off at their own inability to make the thing work and go back to Windoze.=
> > =20
> > Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth.
> >
> > -Mike
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-04 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-03 23:20 [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges Ryan Viljoen
2005-08-04 13:43 ` Chris Cox
2005-08-04 13:50   ` Ryan Viljoen
2005-08-04 14:03     ` Chris Cox
2005-08-04 14:27       ` Michael Sullivan
2005-08-04 14:37         ` Daniel da Veiga
2005-08-04 14:50           ` Michael Crute
2005-08-04 16:33             ` Willie Wong
2005-08-04 17:19               ` Daniel da Veiga
2005-08-04 14:05                 ` Eddie Mihalow Jr
2005-08-04 17:22             ` Bryan Green
2005-08-04 17:40               ` Luke Albers
2005-08-04 22:20               ` Paul Kain [this message]
2005-08-05 20:57                 ` Daevid Vincent
2005-08-04 18:17             ` Jonathan Nichols
2005-08-04 14:43         ` Ryan Viljoen
2005-08-05 13:40         ` Walter Dnes
2005-08-04 17:30       ` Philip Webb
2005-08-04 19:14         ` kashani
2005-08-04 20:29           ` Ryan Viljoen
2005-08-04 20:57             ` Daniel da Veiga
2005-08-04 21:00             ` Paul Kain
2005-08-05 12:23             ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-04 17:53       ` Craig Zeigler
2005-08-04 22:13         ` George Roberts
2005-08-05  0:41         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-08-05  1:08           ` Jamie Dobbs
2005-08-05  1:18           ` Willie Wong
2005-08-04 14:11     ` Michael Sullivan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-09  7:45 Tibdixious, Daiajo

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