[nylug-talk] I'm a Gentoo convert.

[Kevin Mark]

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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:01:07PM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
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> Your listening to what you want to hear rather than what I'm saying.  I'm saying that if you want to be
> an expert in Apache, you can't avoid understanding its code base and its compilation tools.  Further more,
     ^^^^^
> in the spirit of Free Software, I highly encourage people to give it a try and to work with the source, even
> build a custom module or two.  Its a lot easier than one would think and you'll be miles ahead from the
> experience.
How many folks want to be 'expert's in Apache. If not, they would use
'evil' packages. Packages like those in Debian-based distros are
configured for common, everyday use-cases, so that average folks (not
experts) can set up an actual website without months of reading books,
going on IRC, reading 100's of HOWTOs on 'the apache distribution' and
the basics of 'configure,make,make install'. They do not want to be
experts. Will this limit what they can do (with apache)? Yes. But they
just want to get one website up and not create the next JSON, Ajax,
web2.0 site. Some of them love 'the spirit of Free Software' and still
dont want to spend months learning to be 'experts'. Thank $DEITY for
Debian-based distros!
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