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On Friday 18 May 2007 15:04, arnuld wrote: |
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> OK, i found Gentoo a great incident of my life :-), 10 installations |
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> and on 11th time i knew what went wrong in last 10 times and from |
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> there it never went wrong ;-). i want to use Gentoo but i have one |
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> doubt. i am much more inclined towards using "simple" things, like |
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> simplicity in designing an OS. i see, CRUX and Arch are based on |
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> simplicity, the KISS principle and nothing else. |
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> i want to know whether Gentoo has "simplicity" or "KISS and clean" |
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> structure in its design as an OS ? this is the only thing that is |
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> stopping me from using Gentoo. Gentoo philosophy says *nothing* about |
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> simplicity, it talks only about customisation. any idea of if KISS is |
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> present in Gentoo design ? |
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> NOTE: i have observed one thing. i have used Gentoo for 2 days only |
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> and now i am trying to use Arch and CRUX but i see, for me, it is |
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> very difficult to use and work with them them since i am getting used |
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> to a lower level of things. happened with anybody ? |
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AFAIK, Gentoo filosophy is about choices. |
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If you want it simple, you can keep it simple. If you don't, you can do it |
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too. |
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And you discovered what was going wrong in your first 10 installations, right? |
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Can you tell if it was well documentated? If it was your mistake in "jumping" |
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some topics of the handbook? |
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I am a experienced Linux user, and I can tell: if not 100%, something very |
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close of it of the problems I had in Gentoo installation was due to my |
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mistakes. |
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But I don't blame Gentoo. ;) |
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