My girlfriend, who has never used windows properley before, let alone linux, uses my server to irc with using irssi
no gui, all command line, hardc0re girlfriend... not really but damn I wish... On 8/4/05, Bryan Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I put Gentoo on my mom's computer. I got tired of her asking me questions > about her computer concerning the Windows OS, so I installed an OS *I* could > help her maintain, and not feel disgusted with. Just wanted to share that... > > Has anyone else out there put Gentoo on their parents computers? > > -bryan > > > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:50:17 -0400 > > From: Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree=20 > > with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora= > > =20 > > and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off= > > =20 > > far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend=20 > > Gentoo to a noob unless they where just as geeky as I. I would rather see= > > =20 > > normal people use distros like Mandriva and Linspire then graduate to Gento= > > o=20 > > when and if they are ready than to have them start at Gentoo then get pisse= > > d=20 > > off at their own inability to make the thing work and go back to Windoze.= > > =20 > > Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth. > > > > -Mike > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
