On Friday 29 August 2003 02:38 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:20:34 -0400 > > "Robert E. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Have you tried kportage?
I have. Again, not enough like Windows Update in the Ease of Use department... Redhat's nice in that it's got the 'RedHat update utility' for getting security updates... as long as I put a web browser, office suite, and DVD player on that doesn't crash he should be happy... not everyone needs the latest versions ;) Redhat's slower than Gentoo by default because it's not compiled with the same optimizations... but its' still way faster than Win32 so I really can't complain. (not to mention it's getting the computer out of my house a lot faster). -- 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 06:48:30 up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.59, 0.33, 0.12 The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better." I can't understand why it won't work on my Linux computer. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
