[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> It seems to be okay.  People like it for a couple reasons:  1) It compiles
> everything specifically for your system, not the lowest common denominator.

Oh.  That's right.  There's no typical Linux equivalent of "make world".
I'm getting spoiled by BSD.  A Linux distribution with things like "make
world" and a ports tree would go a long way towards making it a more
useful environment, IMO.

If Gentoo has stuff like this, the only real missing component would be
an installer--even a shellscript installer like the BSDs and Slackware
have.

> It's more work than I'd want to do too install a machine, but what's wrong
> with a distribution that makes people UNDERSTAND more about what is going
> on under the hood?

Nothing at all--except that it looks like -way- too much (unnecessary)
to deploy outside of something to play with at home or on your desk at
work.  Granted, that's a perfectly valid niche to fill, but it
definitely doesn't look like an "everywhere" OS.

> Now, the yutz who was pushing it on newbies should be shot[0]...

Yeah, anyone who pushes an OS with about 20 pages of shell commands as
an "install guide" on a newbie has some latent hostilities towards
mankind.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke  *) "Saying 8MB of RAM doesn't do as much anymore is
Thorndale, TX      (*  like saying a gallon of water holds more than it
                   *)  did in 1988."                    --George Adkins