Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mark Bainter <mark-gt@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (2) [LARGE]
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 22:05:20
Message-Id: 20020602220518.A12130@firinn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (2) [LARGE] by Matthew Kennedy
1 Matthew Kennedy [mkennedy@g.o] wrote:
2 > Simonics Zsolt <simc@××××××.hu> writes:
3 >
4 > > "Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution
5 > > for x86, PowerPC, Sparc and Sparc64 that's geared towards Linux power users."
6 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
7 > > Sorry, but i think that this is not Anaconda Wizard's business. Don't
8 > > waste your time...
9 >
10 > Personally I feel this is definitely NOT a waste of time. I know what
11 > it says on the website wrt. power users, but I don't think there's any
12 > reason it needs to stay this way in the future. Just think, in the
13 > future it could be "...geared to towards giving users power" ;)
14
15 The trouble with this is that once a distribution starts down this
16 path the trend seems to be to add more and more stuff for "newbies"
17 at the expense of the power and flexibility that more advanced users
18 enjoy.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (2) [LARGE] Justin Lambert <jlambert@×××.cc>