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 1E0oBY-0002Ki-UZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:27:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74MPDi5029383; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:25:13 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74MJRwq023391 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:19:28 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i1so21853wra for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:20:13 -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=RzmIkGWPlcG8ppN+e/oIRmr7p8WdTRPe4P/Ij3paPB1la0VwX8mjsIIO/lQBZE2hFhfYub6QlCnjZzoBwIVkNAnNo4MGEl8k0yGkQl/0vvpuOs0Ygx0Z6RpzAGxsdMkJYj7z7YwBgOAOND4Ib6h3WxsRf1P0snyXGhrqs0L+OXk= Received: by 10.54.34.54 with SMTP id h54mr1970055wrh; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.80.13 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <451ba79205080415205d411666@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 00:20:13 +0200 From: Paul Kain To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges In-Reply-To: <200508041722.j74HM2M7008630@ece06.nas.nasa.gov> 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> <200508041722.j74HM2M7008630@ece06.nas.nasa.gov> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j74MJRwq023391 X-Archives-Salt: 713471d2-28cf-4460-a12c-8cc249434059 X-Archives-Hash: e4eb7d23286e51001c254813b943bf21 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 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 > > > > > 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 > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list