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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I6s3s-0006If-Rq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:57:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l66HtlhS022520; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:55:47 GMT Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l66HlPGT010677 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:47:26 GMT Received: from [10.72.229.31] (nat-dip11.fw.corp.yahoo.com [209.131.62.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFFA60DE257 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <468E802C.1030203@badapple.net> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return) References: <49bf44f10707030907jaa9f524maef27beb2a7c9df@mail.gmail.com> <468B8C8D.9040808@gmail.com> <20070705001359.GB4927@sympatico.ca> <200707042047.07423.mcbrides9@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200707042047.07423.mcbrides9@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bfdd16a1-66d4-42e7-8097-786238fdd8a9 X-Archives-Hash: c8bcbba89647dc9ae75146abdaececb5 Jerry McBride wrote: > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote: >> 070704 Colleen Beamer wrote: >>> Danyelle Gragsone wrote: >>>> If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would >>>> stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am >>>> looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn. >>> I second this sentiment. Since starting to use Gentoo in 2004, all >>> other distros pale in comparison. Yes, there have been a couple of >>> hurdles, but it was all learning. I view these, not as annoyances, but >>> challenges. I love what I have learned about my system with Gentoo and >>> there is *no* other distro that has a package management system that is >>> better than portage, IMHO. So, thanks from me to all the devs! :-) >> Thirded (smile). >> > > Fourth one here... > > Gentoo has been one of the most rewarding linux experiences that I've had in > years. The only thing that even comes close is LFS... but then upgrading it > is a nightmare. > I'd like to tell the previous four people to move on to meaningful challenges like reverse proxying HTTP to split media and application serving or db replication or ldap backended mail systems or hell anything other than installing a base system. :-) Come on, installing an OS shouldn't be complicated in this century. Given a choice I prefer my tools extremely powerful AND easy, but I'm a professional sys admin with a large pragmatic streak and a low tolerance for technology that makes me jump through hoops. This is coincidentally why Mysql continues to be used in a hundred time more places than Postgres. I find Gentoo to be both easy and powerful most of the time so I have few complaints. However his idea that installing an OS has to be some sort of trial by fire to prove your worth is wacky. I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the liveCD loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so I can start playing with this whole USE flag thing I've heard so much about" and be done with it. Yes, yes you can still choose to set things up yourself and frankly I still find command line fdisk to be much simpler to use than any other tool. After that we can start working on a big fat button that says "I handle all the USE flag stuff rather than having to figure out if equery, ufed, emerge, eix, qpkg, and whatnot tells you what you want to know". Wouldn't that be nice? Gentoo got lucky (or maybe I did) when it was the only distro I could get to install on a office server some idiot has spec'ed with a bleeding edge gaming motherboard that refused to boot any other Linux distro. I ran through the lengthy install because I was out of options and then found I liked the system. I like to think I've been an asset over the years for Gentoo (1500 helpful posts on the forum and counting), but how many busy professionals have taken a look at the install and decided "fsck that, I've got ninety other things I could be doing" and walked away?" kashani, Gentoo user for five years and remembers when they added the *, the bright green for new USE flags, and then sorted the active USE flags first in the emerge output and still thinks the person(s) who came up with those UI tweaks was a genius. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list