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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next prev 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
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2005-08-09 7:45 Tibdixious, Daiajo
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