[SlugLUG] Re: [Honors-members] about that installfest

[cerise at armory.com]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:02:00PM -0800, Peter Belew wrote:
> Gee, Phil, not everyone has the need to learn to build everything in
> their Linux system, though that's a really worthy goal.

   Actually, Peter, you run Gentoo so that you can build everything without the
need to learn how.  Those folk do a really nice job of making the emerge 
command build from source with lots of options and "just work" at the end of 
the day.
   You don't need to know ./configure ; make ; make install to emerge nethack.
 
> And we don't really want to scare away non-geek users of Linux, or
> people whose systems may not be appropriate for Gentoo for some
> reason. :)

   Shoot, if they want to own up to being weak, I have no problem with them.  I
won't scare them away.  ; )

> And what about the "Real Women" that [I know] use Gentoo?
> 
> And what constitutes a "Real Man"? (This may not be the appropriate
> forum for that). (There may be a non-technical testing issue there,
> hehe).

   Sorry, I haven't bothered buying into politically correct language.  When I
say "he", "his", "man", "men", or hell, even "guys", please put on your
peril-sensitive hearing aids and understand that I'm not prepared to give up
those pronouns as gender-specific.
 
> Anyhow I do recomment live CDROMS for Knoppix, Ubuntu, etc, for
> beginners to test-drive Linux.

   LiveCDs are good things for those not yet prepared to take a plunge.

-Phil/CERisE