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 1ROxgk-0005bc-P6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:27:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35626E0504; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:26:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C248E0504 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm12 with SMTP id m12so4375929yen.40 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:25:52 -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=zvzlv3uvDViAWcihMIBg2eftJ5M8s3zKedlto2eFEc4=; b=oFEHHc6xufPr3UlGXS0QEhE/EVI+GlpamWgVXDH9NB4aJZib77kGkD/DTU/q/pA/S1 jbPe0LzPoH0vXWXZUr3UMUe2icdk9sEyIem249LILhkb42y2uTbxhUCtDka+6/ottIJI QbUXENjJVUmnE2j9DDPa6SvXTnBeuvBjjrWTM= Received: by 10.146.72.7 with SMTP id u7mr275422yaa.9.1321043152086; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:25:52 -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 n5sm18676506yhk.1.2011.11.11.12.25.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:25:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBD84CC.8070609@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:25:48 -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> <4EBC1FFD.3040403@gmail.com> <626edce95a8b1dd0834cae8599ab9825.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <201111111921.04929.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: faba1c79-a163-4d14-bb7a-ec72737f76d5 X-Archives-Hash: 28d4800a60975a902d0d1d6048cdac06 Michael Mol wrote: > Never used OpenSuse, but I've spent about ten years bouncing between > Ubuntu and Debian. (I started using Ubuntu around either 5.04 or 6.06. > Not sure.) While Ubuntu is usually among the first of the binary > distros to support new things, it's been suffering more and more (and > more!) decay when you wander off the beaten path. Over the last couple > years, it's tended toward beating its own path, so knowledge and > skills are becoming less portable if you're bouncing between Ubuntu > and other distros, or even between Ubuntu and Debian. It's nice if you > want something up and running fast, it's friendly to newbies, and it's > friendly to some kinds of administrators, but it's *not* friendly to > power users. I think this will suite my brother tho. They check email, weather and the news and my sis-n-law plays games on facebook. They both play card games which Linux has quite a few of. So, this is really what they need. Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on with something new. This is the beauty of Linux. If I copy the WHOLE .mozilla directory from winders to Linux, won't that keep all their settings, passwords, bookmarks and email? I have done that on Linux a couple times with little problems. I'm just not sure about winders to Linux. Thanks. Ya'll gave me some good ideas for both now and in the future if I need to try something else. Dale :-) :-)