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 1RYEL2-0003IX-7r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:03:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE2BF21C192 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thalia-smout.broadpark.no (thalia-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE22121C022 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:09:30 +0000 (UTC) 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.13]) by thalia-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LVT003SETFTRY10@thalia-smout.broadpark.no> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:09:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from alstadheim.priv.no ([84.49.206.55]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LVT00BYRTFS6D00@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:09:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from alstadheim.priv.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by signed.alstadheim.priv.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553E94EB7 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:09:28 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=alstadheim.priv.no; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtp; bh= 9UY+DRNPJmOKskDChqB6HK9a2+0=; b=oT5SVB1NbR/zhlWbOZ750pA4g5jG3EwZ rhjHjxSAlJXisy55apcg5Yj0n+Hl175EtfVigc+nPGi+ycHdM1SNkE/ccjSDOWhh ZmFHyJYhk4Xub2LJreUX0sYy5oGsfqG3xGB46VZ34EQ/X/EJmJgTvMifx6Xzrmuv lmYD1sM285Y= Received: from [192.168.2.145] (sorgen.alstadheim.priv.no [192.168.2.145]) (Authenticated sender: hakon) by submission.alstadheim.priv.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F43583 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:09:27 +0100 (CET) Message-id: <4EDF2D47.9020105@alstadheim.priv.no> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:09:27 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?SMOla29uIEFsc3RhZGhlaW0=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110826 Icedove/3.1.12 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse References: <20111207001508.GA15904@gaurahari.merseine.nu> In-reply-to: <20111207001508.GA15904@gaurahari.merseine.nu> X-Archives-Salt: df76bc85-20ef-4c98-8a7f-1dfe0dc7df12 X-Archives-Hash: 347973522374d36cf283904e6859bf3f Den 07. des. 2011 01:15, skrev Indi: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:40:01AM +0100, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2011-12-06, ny6p01@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote: >>>> >>>>> But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for >>>>> beginners! >>>> Because Gentoo is not for beginners, there are already plenty of distros, >>>> like Mandriva and Ubuntu, catering for first time users. Gentoo is a >>>> "power users" distro. >>> And yet the documentation is clear enough for anyone to follow along. >>> Which leads me to my next point: the Gentoo documentation is far and >>> away the best of any distro I have tried. >> Definitely. >> >> The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of >> wrong answers posted by people who didn't understand the question. >> >>> Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of accolades for his >>> efforts. >> The Gentoo docs are indeed brilliant. >> > They really are. When you have great documentaion, a shell, and a keyboard > that *is* user-friendly! ;)! > It tells you something that quite often when I google for "some-problem-description" and debian/ubuntu/suse/windows/whatever, quite often the only hits to come up are gentoo-related. On debian the gentoo answer is usually useful, on ubuntu ... well, 'nuff sed.