From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVAFN-0002sL-1h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:50:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23106E061A; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.248]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9926E061A for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c2so198057anc.1 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:50:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3ACrQK+CSD6UaX1Ez+qoMNWpR8wQs8u0gQ++xc7SUFQ=; b=JEF62jiTCmDnbqT8M4OkDaBAWX+sgRzs8H/aDIw6ACHATpf4Ub/V14emHqXhHbQVAZ YP9y6QraAN58YphJfvQK55E7+cIvKiP6oJALExVdwF0BvKHqe3U+ulRvqq675+gGg00a xr5QYuUxlBH/lYnMONag3HKPsmBMZiNJiyRVc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FSWgjuu07iNaXWiCTb3oWx40spUDNt6TL8wCvKl5XmNgS96HDfChKDH5eKsTAK6Ujw SaW+w4/P9K1leU1SwR+KDpC60oGjzPHLLFlUX4QXN3TqMKuVULxxliko5mGheZYrnil/ 2JiyIUTJsVGGh/KWOYqM3wYMOMhVxsmjF2OfM= Received: by 10.100.136.18 with SMTP id j18mr481190and.48.1233863447677; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from gentoo-everex.local (cpe-72-185-51-230.tampabay.res.rr.com [72.185.51.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c9sm876380ana.13.2009.02.05.11.50.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:50:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <498B4234.7010108@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:47:00 -0500 From: Saphirus Sage User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081231) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? References: <200902052010.25653.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200902052036.05303.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5d9c2ffe-004a-454b-ae4f-faff974b0373 X-Archives-Hash: b337a9346b5af1da466e929672429774 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>> gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs. >>> I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what >>> to do rather than go read docs somewhere else :P >> >> and when the nice installer fucks up, you are screwed. > > You're screwed anyway if you can't use the CLI installer correctly. > Reading the docs is fine, but they're written for geeks, not normal > people. Normal people don't have a clue what the docs are talking > about :) > > It seems to me that not to many "normal people" would use Gentoo anyway. By and large, we're probably geeks...I mean, c'mon, this is a mailing list for users of a distro of linux. Your normal "My computer gets myspace" group isn't exactly our audience.