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 1ROsu0-0001Q4-Vp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:20:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7202F21C0B5; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A8121C0E9 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyx24 with SMTP id 24so3770657eyx.40 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:17:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=x1qmf6yFkcy4HTcs5VIDLzZPX60Zg5FfUX8Dm16wAPs=; b=sHgWl/lbzTCB4GfWEwtalbvvLYx/HZVHrqCIH8Y0S3Hdb4xO6R2k5rjGIcGGdNtXh3 fuZPxrdXVxMLd/DirU63h88V2+we9KJOubYaY8HfIZb7C0PqXpqnTkF9SWwDo8U6x7O0 ydirE5QOi8qs9WBBuq4V+NvjlNUPudaSLyh2s= 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 Received: by 10.182.217.73 with SMTP id ow9mr2689511obc.11.1321024678262; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:17:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.149.33 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:17:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EBD3738.9090203@gmail.com> References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <4EBD3738.9090203@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:17:58 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e906e2f2-b33d-4705-a169-ccfe33b1475e X-Archives-Hash: 5199e14168505072d6f65241c9b0bda4 On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Dale wrote: > > Now to teach him how to update the thing. > > Dale > > :-) =C2=A0:-) > > 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