Rev for Linux "Seal of Approval"

[Rishi Viner]

On Friday 07 July 2006 06:38, chris bohnert wrote:
> You'll get my gentoo box when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

Here here! And hello fellow Gentoo user!

Bob Warren:
"1. The distro runs or installs automatically (i.e. can be done by a 
layman) and configures all normal hardware, even on old machines, 
including Windows network printers, floppy diskette drives, etc."

On the face of it, Gentoo fails your point 1 dismally! Gentoo is anything but 
a nice automated install. BUT in terms of hardware support, Gentoo will find 
a way, where many other distros have failed time and again. I ended up first 
installing Gentoo primarily due to other distros not being able to handle my 
hardware. I learnt a lot along the way and think Gentoo is the best distro at 
forcing you to actually learn how linux works. 

The point is, diversity is the strength of Linux. There will always pop into 
existence a distro that does what a certain group of users needs (no matter 
how small). The best thing is there is always choice. Something the Mac/Win 
models have always lacked. 


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Rishi Viner
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