[GRASS-user] Re: Gui error behind splash screen

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 16:25 +0200, Maris Nartiss wrote:
> 
> Another GRASS+Ubuntu segfault. Use search to get more info. In short:
> remove GRASS and all of it's dependencies and complie new ones FROM
> SOURCE! (or choose some better user-friendly distribution like Gentoo)
> 
> Maris.

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Sorry for breaking-in to your discussion.

I want to confirm that through my small experience with Ubuntu and
osgeo-tools, I have seen several times segfault problems. Things are
really better when compiling from source.

About the "Gentoo and user-friendly" argument: it could use a ";-)"
smiley :-).

FWIW:
Seriously, I don't doubt about it being *real user-friendly*. But most
people tend to identify user-friendly systems as systems that just work
out-of-box. Since there are different views it is necessary to define
what one understands as *user-friendly* and what not. Anyhow, I think
that Gentoo, is definitely NOT for a new-comer in the FOSS4G field.

Kind Regards, Nikos