On Jan 15, 2008 12:48 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > > > Anybody that feels they *need* or *must have* an official Gentoo > > > installer is probably the wrong target market and should be > > > referred to other distros that will suit their needs better. This > > > is not a troll or an elitist statement, it's just recognizing what > > > gentoo is and what it isn't - it's not a distro suitable for > > > someone to whom chroot isn't yet second nature. > > > > > > > I don't think it's an elitist statement, I agree in thinking that we > > shouldn't cater to the lcd. There are plenty of distros out there > > that work just fine and the greatest thing about FOSS is choice. If > > all of the options are the same there's no point. Again though, I > > have to disagree with the point that it's not for somebody whom > > chroot isn't yet second nature: I learned chroot through the install. > > I've tried playing around with Fedora / Ubunttu but I keep going > > back to Gentoo; it's my favorite distro. > > I know my statement about chroot looks like it should be taken > literally, but it wasn't meant that way. Read it more as illustrative, > that the potential user should be reasonably familiar with the more > unusual commands in *nix systems - chroot, grep, the idea of pipes and > redirection and many many more. After all if they are going to be using > these tools, they should know something about them. >
Or the user could be like me - no experience with any of these commands but a moderate interest in learning. I hope this users list will continue to be supportive of folks like me. I was pointed to Gentoo 7 years ago by a very experienced Linux sys admin at a start up I was working at in Silicon Valley. Primarily through the help of this list I managed to get my first machine working in a few days and today have probably built 20 Gentoo machines. My longest lived, used my my dad who will be 80 this year, has now been running over 5 years. I couldn't have done it without the folks on this list. Grant you, I get that I'm not the target market, but I am someone who has benefited greatly from Gentoo and the generosity of the folks on this list. I hope it will continue for others that follow over the years to come. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
