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I just spent ten minutes telling my younger daughter that I'd just installed Gentoo onto a multiboot Slack system first go, including the chrooting and kernel makeconfig selections and portage emerging and she's not even slightly impressed.

First go, straight in there, booted all the way to a working command line. Come on, that's pretty neat. It's got a shared /boot and I didn't even know that was legal.

Kids today have no appreciation for the finer challenges of installing a new operating system correctly on top of a linux kernel the first time I'm impressed. BRAVO SPOT.. !! :yh_worshp:yh_worshp

Law of diminishing returns

CARLA;1357001 wrote: Kids today have no appreciation for the finer challenges of installing a new operating system correctly on top of a linux kernel the first time I'm impressed. BRAVO SPOT.. !! :yh_worshp:yh_worshp


Now that's what I call proper recognition from someone who knows. That's exactly what I had in mind when I started the thread, too.

spot;1356998 wrote: I just spent ten minutes telling my younger daughter that I'd just installed Gentoo onto a multiboot Slack system first go, including the chrooting and kernel makeconfig selections and portage emerging and she's not even slightly impressed.

First go, straight in there, booted all the way to a working command line. Come on, that's pretty neat. It's got a shared /boot and I didn't even know that was legal.


Wow----------I did not understand one single thing in your post. That tells ya how much I know about computers. :-2

Lon;1357021 wrote: Wow----------I did not understand one single thing in your post. That tells ya how much I know about computers. :-2


Just as well I dropped the bit about the framebuffer, really.

You need the framebuffer or you're stuck with 80x25 monochrome. I can't think straight with so little on the screen. It amazes me we ever did what we did. I reckon I'm somewhere up around 132x60 with color.

What chroot does for you is, you have one particular unimportant-looking sub-directory and you walk into it with a terminal window closing the door behind you, and the terminal behaves like it's on a completely new computer rooted on that directory. It's an uncanny experience and whoever thought that up and got it to work is deeply respectable.

Slackware and Gentoo are just ways of handling linux. Gentoo has two preferred commands to bring new programs onto a machine, portage and emerge. Slackware uses slackpkg and pkgtool instead. They take a different approach to presenting a PC than Microsoft does. What I want out of a computer is firstly productivity, and after that a feeling of self-confidence.

Setting up a linux machine takes me far less time than setting up a Microsoft environment, keeping it clean and sparkly takes me far less time and it's years since I felt confident that any Microsoft environment was under my control. I reckon Microsoft's popularity is about to take a bruising. I do thank them for all they've done and I wish them well, but I don't use their programs any longer.

What's happening here?

Nomad;1357102 wrote: What's happening here?


I don't know, all I got out of it is that Spot has a daughter.

YZGI;1357116 wrote: I don't know, all I got out of it is that Spot has a daughter.


Those skilled in the art of deciphering plain English would have discovered from the opening post that I have precisely two.

YZGI;1357116 wrote: I don't know, all I got out of it is that Spot has a daughter.


spot;1357119 wrote: Those skilled in the art of deciphering plain English would have discovered from the opening post that I have precisely two.


I wasn't ciphering the number of daughters I was just makin a general statement that I couldn't cipher the rest of the post. Congrats on the daughters though, you sound like a proud pappa.

YZGI;1357124 wrote: I wasn't ciphering the number of daughters I was just makin a general statement that I couldn't cipher the rest of the post. Congrats on the daughters though, you sound like a proud pappa.


They are, technically, less valuable than my two sons. Unless I sell them down the Bazaar, I suppose. The daughters. Nobody in their right mind would pay for the lads, the idea of either making an adequate field hand is laughable.

spot;1357125 wrote: They are, technically, less valuable than my two sons. Unless I sell them down the Bazaar, I suppose. The daughters. Nobody in their right mind would pay for the lads, the idea of either making an adequate field hand is laughable.


Thanks for the "two" on the sons. The less ciphering I can get away with the better. Congrats on the 4. I myself have 3 sons.