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On Monday, 22. April 2002 17:14, you wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I resently trippend over your distribution and now, about a week |
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> later, I'm pretty impressed. Spending most of my time at the |
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> university setting Gentoo up was a bliss and everything worked just |
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> marvelous. |
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> This weekend I had to spend time off university, off net to put it in |
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> perspective. So I took my notebook and tried to install over some |
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> adsl connection not getting very far at first. A lot of hassle later |
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> that worked to. |
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> The reason I contact you is to urge you to make the installation a |
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> bit easier especially over adsl dialup. Many people including many |
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> developers I work with would like to try Gentoo but don't because |
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> they do not like scanning newsgroups or message boards just for the |
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> sake of getting some Linux running. |
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perhaps you should be more specific about what you want. to me it |
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sounds like you want us to fix your adsl setup!? |
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since your from germany, it might be that you are referrring to the |
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pppoe stuff telekom makes you use. if you are requesting more |
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documentation on that, then you might be right.... |
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perhaps you could, in a quick few steps, describe your procedure |
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and that way build the foundation for an extension of the existing |
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installation procedure... ? |
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> I really like the distribution and so I'd love to see you fixing that |
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> up, rather sooner than later. |
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but please consider contributing |
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thanks |
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> greats from Germany |
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> Rudi |
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regards |
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Thilo |
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