In our local LUG (city in new zealand, 400k people plus hinterland, about 250 on the mailing list and some of them are out of town) we have a few gentoo zealots, and have run a few gentoo installfests.
Often on the email list there are people saying "i can't get foo to work on distro X because there is no package|the package is out of date|library bar is too old unless I upgrade my system to version Y of the distro. And some of the people on the list do get sick of the gentooers replying "oh just emerge foo and it just works" There are the standard jokes about weeks to install the system, and the constant fiddling that results. Comments about enormous downloads can be easily met with "oh and how long did it take to download your fedora cd's plus all the updates" Most of it is pretty good natured though, and there are a good number of "converts". I think like all proselyting, it pays to be balanced in your advocacy and then people will respect you. OTOH try and sell gentoo, or any other distro, as the ultimate solution for everyone and people will quite rightly regard you as a nutter. On Wed, 18 May 2005 16:21:03 -0700 Grant wrote: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
