On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:58, Mark Shields <laebsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, Gentoo. >> >> After a few weeks of effort, I've just gone live with my very own Gentoo >> system. :-) >>
Hi Alan! Welcome to the club :-) [-- snip --] >> >> So, thanks for all the help, everybody! >> >> -- >> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). >> > > Gentoo has it's places, but at the end of the day, I just want my desktop > system to work with little effort on my part. And be consistent. Ubuntu > gives me that on a desktop -- well, it did, until they decided to switch to > Unity. But that's another topic... How I wish I can use *any* kind of Linux for my desktop :-/ > For everything else (re: servers), there's Gentoo :) Can't agree more ;-) > I run a Gentoo VPS for a website. I love the flexibility of Gentoo, the > speed, the nothingness you start with and have to mold it together like you > would an artist with a block of clay. I was about to post something similar to what you wrote, but you did it much more poetically. Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
