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On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Eric Martin wrote: |
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> > Anybody that feels they *need* or *must have* an official Gentoo |
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> > installer is probably the wrong target market and should be |
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> > referred to other distros that will suit their needs better. This |
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> > is not a troll or an elitist statement, it's just recognizing what |
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> > gentoo is and what it isn't - it's not a distro suitable for |
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> > someone to whom chroot isn't yet second nature. |
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> I don't think it's an elitist statement, I agree in thinking that we |
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> shouldn't cater to the lcd. There are plenty of distros out there |
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> that work just fine and the greatest thing about FOSS is choice. If |
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> all of the options are the same there's no point. Again though, I |
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> have to disagree with the point that it's not for somebody whom |
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> chroot isn't yet second nature: I learned chroot through the install. |
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> I've tried playing around with Fedora / Ubunttu but I keep going |
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> back to Gentoo; it's my favorite distro. |
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I know my statement about chroot looks like it should be taken |
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literally, but it wasn't meant that way. Read it more as illustrative, |
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that the potential user should be reasonably familiar with the more |
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unusual commands in *nix systems - chroot, grep, the idea of pipes and |
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redirection and many many more. After all if they are going to be using |
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these tools, they should know something about them. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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