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

[Peter Belew]

Hi again, Phil.

On 3/25/06, cerise at armory.com <cerise at armory.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that is true. Some people, of course, would like to just
install the binaries and not wait for the builds. But I don't know
the time ratio between the two approaches.
>
> > 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.  ; )

 I'm weak. Till I want to install something that isn't avaiable in
binary, or would better be rebuilt since it isn't in the right package
format, or would benefit for optomization, etc ...

>
> > 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.

 LOL (jsheldon concurs in the LOL part)
>
> > 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.
>

 I prefer fairly warm water, myself, when plunging.

 Cheers,

  Peter

> -Phil/CERisE
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