On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:45 -0700, Grant wrote: > > I don't think so, Gentoo (at least as far as I know) is minimalist and > > provides you with choices. Making it all "automagic" seems cool to the > > average user that don't have time, patience or will to know what's > > happening in the system, but making it default would take the freedom > > of people that want to dive deep into the config files and dev files > > to get the most of the hardware and take control of the system. Of > > course its a good idea for people to "taste" Linux and maybe make them > > curious about knowing more of the system to take advantage of all the > > hardware upgrades. > > > > I think that stuff that does "magic tricks" in the computer software > > world gets bigger, buggy, unstable and slower as time passes and more > > tricks are added, and then you think of... Micro$oft and Ruindow$. I > > sincerely hope it never happens to any Lin distro.
> > -- > > Daniel da Veiga > > But don't you think the computer systems of the future would surely > implement something like Gentopia? Things can always be done > manually, but automatic seems like a step forward. On the other hand, > I do agree with the things you're saying. This is why I asked the > question. I'm not sure about this. > To me, it's not a focus on gentopia. Gentopia is Gentoo's version of the project utopia stack (which is more GNOME specific). for example, gamin is the successor to famd which works more efficiently based on inotify. gnome-volume-manager for example works with gamin + udev + hal + dbus to make all the necessary messages to make things smooth much like a Mac right now. I don't think gentopia will be default for gentoo, but I do think it will be for Gnome. To me, gentoo isn't really for the masses, for those we have Ubuntu/Knoppix/Fedora. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:45:30 up 1:58, 5 users, load average: 0.66, 0.44, 0.43 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
