Hall Stevenson wrote:At 03:07 PM 11/19/2003, you wrote:
> This forum's name is fairly illustrative of it's purpose: to discuss issues relating to using the distribution.I'm willing to bet that most people choose a distro based on install ease, choice of packages, built-in tools, and so on -- NOT the "political" idealogy of the distro.
Before I decide, if I want to use a distribution, I want to know something about it. Here are my questions and I need answers to draw a conclusion.
How this can help *me*?
Sorry, but I, as well as everyone else who's responded to you hasn't interpreted your questions as you looking for "help". It's you trying to get Gentoo's "religious" philosophy in regards to what "free" really means. As numerous people have told you, YOU'RE ASKING THE WRONG GROUP. These questions should be directed at the "management" of Gentoo. If you can't find out who they are -- I don't know either, nor do I care -- then go right to "the man", Daniel Robbins.
Do you think what "most people do" is a good reason to change my criterions?
You're obviously not the type to do what "most people do". :-) I believe people should use what is best for them and not have others decide for them. You ask below about using Windows because "most people" use it. That's not why I use it, mind you. I use it because it often is the best tool for my needs.
BTW most people use MS Windows, do you follow advices you give to other people?
I've got (4) working PCs at home. Mine dual-boots WinXP and Gentoo. My old PC dual-boots Win98 and Debian, but is running just Debian now. Another PC runs Mandrake and was originally setup to be a file server but since our two main PCs have many, many times the disc space, it's more or less just wasting electricity. Finally, my wife's PC runs WinXP alone.
I also have a Sparc20 with Debian installed on it, but it's nor running. It's too loud... :-)
Why do I have so many ?? Because *I* want to. *I* use what *I* want to use and I frankly don't give a rat's *ss about software freedom, free beer, and so on. If a tool I need works best on WinXP, I'm going to use WinXP. I *want* to use Linux across the board, but I know that it's not completely capable of replacing WinXP -- for my use.
Regards
Hall
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