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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:37:47 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Do you see the pattern, your lack of understanding is not a failing of |
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>>> the software? This is not a technological point, or even a political |
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>>> one, it is about being outside of your comfort zone. Using Gentoo is |
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>>> an exercise in expanding your comfort zone. |
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>> It's not about comfort zone for me. It's that I do NOT want to use a |
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>> init thingy. Period. Real simple. I had fits with that thing in the |
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>> past and I do not want to revisit the issue again, certainly not on |
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>> Gentoo. I'm not going to revisit hal either. I forgot the name but not |
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>> the lesson I learned from it. |
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> I realise that, you do have a real knack for breaking things, and thus a |
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> strong motivation for avoiding anything new, or that bit you in the past. |
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>> I might also add, I switched to grub2 a while back. The old grub worked |
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>> fine but I wanted to go ahead and switch to the new grub since it seems |
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>> to be ready and stable. Was that outside my comfort zone? |
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> almost certainly. It is for anyone used to legacy GRUB. Is it outside of |
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> your comfort now? No, because you took the trouble to learn how to use |
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> it. I was exactly the same with GRUB2, and with init doodahs. now I am |
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> not only capable of using and breaking both, but also of having a good go |
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> at cleaning up the mess afterwards :) |
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You missed my whole point. You can't claim it is because it is new and |
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outside my comfort zone because even tho grub2 was new to me, it was not |
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outside my comfort zone. Grub2 is very little like the old grub. It is |
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just plain outright new actually. The thing is, grub has a track record |
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of WORKING for ME. The init thingy has a record of FAILING for me. The |
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init thing has not changed just the tools that make them have changed. |
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The point is, I don't care what tool is used to make the init thingy, I |
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don't want to use one. If it fails, I don't know how to fix it any |
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better today than I did back then. |
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To put it simply, if a init thingy is forced on me, the first time this |
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rig fails to boot and I can't figure out how to fix it, I'll be |
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installing some distro that is at least faster to reinstall. This isn't |
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the first time I have posted that either. I love my Gentoo but if it |
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breaks and I can't fix it, it is of no use to me on my puter. I love my |
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little car that I have had for almost 20 years but if it stops getting |
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me from point A to point B then I need a different car. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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