text editing in ubuntu

[Steven Susbauer]

On Aug 6, 2009, at 9:54 PM, Jay Daniels wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 03:25 +0100, steve wrote:
>> i've just had a quick look at gentoo features, philosophy, etc, and
>> it
>> sounds like the kind of setup i would like to have in the long run,
>
>
> after hours of installing i finally gave up on gentoo.  the fact is,
> gentoo takes toooooo long to install!

It does. Maintenance and application installation also takes a long  
time, which is why I switched to Arch. I never used Gentoo in order to  
have 1337 CFLAGS so the switch wasn't all that drastic, except for the  
faster speed.

> Well, that was last year.  I will try it again, perhaps with  
> simplified
> window manager and console apps and see if everything is auto detected
> like Ubuntu and Fedora.

It's not. You have to build the support in your kernel. Nothing is  
"auto-detected" except when using the install cd which is not the  
system that is actually installed on your computer.