Athul Acharya wrote: >>So to sum it up, it's not really (for me maybe) about enterprise v. hobbyist, >>it's about moving ANYONE over to Linux, period. > > > Actually, I rather like to think that Gentoo is one of the very few > distributions that cares more about meeting existing Linux > [power]users' needs rather than getting any new users to Linux. I > mean lets face it, a distro that's largely DIY is hardly a good first > Linux, but an excellent second Linux and indeed thats the very reason > why I use Gentoo. Let Redhat/Fedora/Mandrake do the initial user > grab, that's what they're good at. > > Athul >
OTOH, most computer users are unable to or uninterested in installing/configuring an OS. All they need is someone to setup Gentoo for them and they can basically use it like they would an MS Windows "appliance". Zac -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
