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Athul Acharya wrote: |
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>>So to sum it up, it's not really (for me maybe) about enterprise v. hobbyist, it's about moving ANYONE over to Linux, period. |
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> Actually, I rather like to think that Gentoo is one of the very few |
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> distributions that cares more about meeting existing Linux |
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> [power]users' needs rather than getting any new users to Linux. I |
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> mean lets face it, a distro that's largely DIY is hardly a good first |
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> Linux, but an excellent second Linux and indeed thats the very reason |
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> why I use Gentoo. Let Redhat/Fedora/Mandrake do the initial user |
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> grab, that's what they're good at. |
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> Athul |
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OTOH, most computer users are unable to or uninterested in installing/configuring an OS. All they need is someone to setup Gentoo for them and they can basically use it like they would an MS Windows "appliance". |
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