On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:01 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:21:17 +0000 > > "Robert E. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I finally gave up on Gentoo for my pianist's computer today and > > installed Redhat 9. It's currently reminding me why I don't use an RPM > > based distro myself, though it is pretty nice and once I get a few > > things fixed it will be great for my pianist (for one he needs a GUI for > > just about everything and Gentoo doesn't provide that). > > Of course Gentoo does not have an ebuild for everything under the sun. > What types of things are missing that cause a problem? Just curious. > > You are not limited from installing RPMs on Gentoo. Dependencies could > probably be a hassle, but they are on a pure RPM system (wherever those may > exist).
It's not the apps available- it's the system setup/maintenance stuff that he needs a GUI for. Gentoo's great for me, because I know what a command line is. -- Linux EPoX.Linux.Raymond 2.6.0-test4 #1 Mon Aug 25 06:49:22 EDT 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 19:19:21 up 7 min, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 0.94, 0.44 Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users