Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Gentoo does not need an 'installer'. We have way too many people > not being able to read simple instructions already > or spend 5 min on Google & thinking for themselves. > Just look at this mailing list. We really don't need more of them.
I'm not sure we do have many such users, if any : they don't stay around. However, I strongly agree that lack of an installer provides a form of initiation which ensures new users belong here. Gentoo is not for the masses. It's for people who customise their systems & typically who build their own machines to begin with. It's more like owning a horse than using a TV (popular binary distros). It isn't difficult, but it does demand attention + some work sometimes : the reward is a computer which does exactly what you want it to. Professionals who manage large server farms may want a means of cloning an existing system onto new machines, but that's a different problem, which sb solvable, if it isn't already. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
