Gentoo Linux

Wed Apr 3 06:46:26 EST 2002

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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=chaz03 at localnet.com href="mailto:chaz03 at localnet.com">Charles 
  Rishel</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nflug at nflug.org 
  href="mailto:nflug at nflug.org">nflug at nflug.org</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:36 
  AM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Gentoo Linux</DIV>
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  <DIV>OK, <BR>Well I feel that I have to add my $.02 worth here.. <BR>One of 
  the problems I see facing Linux has already been done.&nbsp; Unix splintered 
  off into separate groups that did "their own thing" back when.&nbsp; I see 
  this already happening to Linux.&nbsp; I am ALL for open source, it just 
  bothers me that all these "wannabe's" will make their own distro which is just 
  a collection of work that they didn't do or contribute to, yet they wanna make 
  money from it.<BR>Yes, it is perfectly acceptable&nbsp; by the terms of GNU 
  copyleft, but that still doesn't make it right.&nbsp; If I did nothing but 
  collected what is needed to build a 'basic' Linux box, with no appreciable 
  additions, I would feel like a heel by charging for that, regardless that 'my 
  time is money'.<BR><BR>I think the FHS&nbsp; </DIV>
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  <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>FHS....what is FH? Please 
  explain:)</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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  <DIV>Ron Maggio<BR>Have Screwdriver Will Travel<BR>Computer Repair 
  Service<BR>P.O. BOX 186<BR>Spring Brook, NY. 14140-0186<BR>Phone: (716) 
  677-5909<BR><A 
  href="mailto:havescrewdriverwilltravel at worldnet.att.net">havescrewdriverwilltravel at worldnet.att.net</A></DIV></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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  <DIV><U>NEEDS</U> to become a reality, and that Every linux distro follow it, 
  standardization is not necessarily a bad thing.&nbsp; It will only make us 
  stronger in the long run if it doesn't matter that 'so &amp; so' learned on 
  Debian or RH or Slackware, as long as the FHS is in place, then the files that 
  matter will be where they should be.<BR><BR>That is one of the strengths of 
  proprietary systems, things are where you expect them to be, each time/every 
  time.<BR><BR>Just my $.02<BR><BR>Chaz®<BR><BR>At 07:48 PM 4/2/02 -0500, you 
  wrote:<BR></DIV>
  <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite type="cite">Thought someone might be interested 
    in this.&nbsp; Has anyone checked out Gentoo?<BR><BR><A 
    href="http://www.gentoo.org/index-about.html" 
    eudora="autourl">http://www.gentoo.org/index-about.html</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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