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 1HdAqY-0007sN-PN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:57:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3FJu4s2012257; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:56:04 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3FJpvtB007576 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:51:58 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so810955ugc for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:51:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tUhlVXX0trRLrSBOl5/bbQAFcX66FisS71BgOTUAqZHLs+42Un6xwpikeTxAZkelg1HNP+V59DBKQiPOHqCear9nY4ROd3RY9XjgnNZy+440kBlP6TJHysMI8LQSOp7OUJROalhpSV18Cz9xk7Zz5R22pWLiRjFBm5fh8QsbnNI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O01aglI9OAmlN12b4Rf8h9C8gLcp9LHZVeutRuSfBaHipxQYHshWpYLnPzeQwzSOhMOz+v/LzWneoHtaoFwyOlBuseoeIgxG1szyp140qVJ49u88q3bPaYC4Nw5Y2MF+96N3++lABpBGVZxkx0Fq7QwfruexokCh4bBXsoxeK7Q= Received: by 10.67.115.15 with SMTP id s15mr3756890ugm.1176666717968; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.249.17 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7bef1f890704151251pf5c3012h3bbe629b5236df2b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:51:57 +1000 From: "Alan E. Davis" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious In-Reply-To: <462267A7.4000408@ep.mine.nu> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1943592292-1176466053-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1537984767-@bxe008-cell00.bisx.prodap.on.blackberry> <46221C40.3030202@gmail.com> <200704151531.38475.mail@eliasprobst.eu> <462267A7.4000408@ep.mine.nu> X-Archives-Salt: 75fe0dab-ef98-4f89-a90e-49106e282efe X-Archives-Hash: 08cc1cbc32ebeefb7f33b93c5203b944 I'm 60. Gentoo since November 2005. I was first exposed to the *nix concept through the DOS compiled Unix utilities produced by the FSF in about 1992 or 3. Once I returned to civilization from a remote Pacific island, where I was using the *nix text tools for a lexicon project, I had to have Linux, of which I had learned by following the FSF News Bull. Started on Slackware. After about two years, I moved to Debian. A few years later, I started using Knoppix to install and ran Debian. I started using Gentoo as a self-torture exercize, to cure myself of fear of configuration. I have looked at Ubuntu and MEPIX in the meanwhile, even running them when I need a quick install. I have never seriously looked back from Gentoo, however. I'm not from a computer background, which seems somewhat unique among respondents. Rather, I have been using GNU/Linux to enable my work, education, science, publishing w/ TeX/LaTeX, making tide calendars. I owe a huge debt to the developers. I would like to pay it back, perhaps working on Documentation; perhaps I am too scatterbrained and although I have taken a basic course in Computer Architecture, programmed in Elisp, and taken a course in Mathematical FORTRAN, I feel somewhat ovewhelmed by the nits. Alan -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@gmail.com I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. --------Richard Stallman Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ----- Thomas H. Huxley -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list