On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:22:30 -0600 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] > > There are lots of distros (Linux and non-Linux) that either don't have a > graphical install and/or don't have a large user base and still survive. > I mean Slackware is probably the oldest living distro, is still kicking > and screaming (for some strange reason) and it doesn't even have decent > package management. OpenBSD, which Gentoo more closely resembles than > Ubuntu, has been around almost as long as Slack and it doesn't have a > graphical installation. Yeah, they "still survive". But why don't we expect more? Let Gentoo be much more popular. [...] > > Not installation CD: boot media. But to answer your question I don't > find it weird at all. It's one of the selling points of Gentoo. A few > months ago I installed Gentoo on a partition on a machine that was > installed with Ubuntu just by creating a partition, downloading a stage3 > tarball and doing a chroot. Maybe it's weird to the outsider, but I > think it's wonderful. For the advanced users, your creating, downloading and chrooting is as easy as pie. But for the outsider, it's rather complicated, and they wonder why this step should taken instead of another. The easy-to-use installation CD is good for starters, gives them a good impression. We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek first, and then have a try on Gentoo linux sytem. [...] -- Guanqun -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
