From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ROuUG-0002Il-TW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:01:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86B1C21C0B4; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:01:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF95221C04C for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnv2 with SMTP id v2so5451111ggn.40 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:00:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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; bh=3vEKXAh24AygsW/ohvU4zSmXz1eq9cDoJLoEUM9Pd6U=; b=nssKsbieh7ycemjHCxfsIL1AIDwzHahkSBCHTnAj9XGWSp4q2Tg28/2ADeXeBUdlNr Ez232BM2tVlmOzpRp81TkdWzSfzdeZ4uMKLZk5lsAzpG+eIz9kkzjY4iU/TzpV6Y5vee 3cBf1Il8m0R+wZr80VL9xPNRHS8LXPOxSEgiQ= Received: by 10.101.11.18 with SMTP id o18mr5907304ani.86.1321030844023; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-124-88.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.124.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v5sm35302414anf.3.2011.11.11.09.00.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:00:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBD54B7.1040001@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:00:39 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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] [OT] Binary install distro References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <4EBD3738.9090203@gmail.com> <4EBD4224.7070307@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2c85e6a9-d59b-48da-80ba-14ff1a905150 X-Archives-Hash: 24a957bc3d75a468f851f05d32924030 Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: >>> I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend running >>> Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could. It wasn't that it >>> was bad or didn't work, but that the management of it seemed so >>> different from any distro I'd run before that I didn't want to deal >>> with learning it. Let's see how that does for you. >>> >>> Again, remembering I didn't really give it much of a chance - I was >>> running on a Power PC Mac Mini - two things that drove me mad were: >>> >>> 1) The basic install didn't tell me what the root password was. >>> >>> 2) All the management was done using sudo. >>> >>> I couldn't get past the idea that if something went wrong that with no >>> root password what was I supposed to do? Now, I was absolutely sure at >>> the time there had to be a way to set that myself, maybe as simple as >>> sudo passwd - root or something like that, but I decided it just >>> wasn't for me and tossed the machine in the garage rather than deal >>> with it! :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mark >>> > >> I don't use sudo on my rig so it sort of annoys me. ;-) I guess we have >> that in common. lol >> >> The update tool is GUI. That's why I think he can do that himself. A lot >> like winders in a way. Heck, if this works well and that intfs thingy gets >> on my nerves, may use it myself. :-( I may have found my next distro. >> I'm not leaving yet. I'm going to give the inity thingy a shot, maybe two. >> After that, kill shot. >> >> Dale >> > I hate sudo, I never got the point in using it - and actually it is > one of the thing that makes Ubuntu annoying to me. I'm not the only > one, then! :D > > Howerer, I think that Ubuntu is one of the "best" distro for beginners > (especially those coming from windows/os x), so it should work well > for your brother. Basically, it is absolutely possible to run and > update the distro without ever touching the terminal... Me, I find it > too "constraining". > > In regard to Sabayon, last time I tried it, I had the impression it > was buggy, but it was three years ago... Actually, I'd like to give it > a try one of these days :) > > Best regards, > Lorenzo > > Us Gentooers are to much alike. lol Dale :-) :-)