Apparently, though unproven, at 14:30 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon writes: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin > > > > O'Gorman did opine thusly: > > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel > > > a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > > > > > > > I know how you feel :-) > > > > > > > > I've tried to get away from Gentoo several times, and failed. The amount > > of work we all put into keeping things working is best described as "bat > > shit crazy", but we do it anyway. Maybe it's like a drug thing, we all > > need a daily fix or we need to prove we can still do it. > > I tried various distros (SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Libranet, RedHat), but > when I started using Gentoo, I was hooked. No fancy shmancy GUIs that > hide what's really going on beneath, and that often enough have their own > bugs so that it's easier to not use them. Rolling updates, no fear that > upgrades mess up everything. Good documentation, that explains what has do > be done and why, instead of just telling me what to do and where to click. That's what keep me on Gentoo for my own machines (bar one) and I have never needed to re-install it anywhere. But at work, things are different. Gentoo is banned from the -prod machines (the risk of some n00b admin running "emerge uND world" and walking away is too great, plus even just (deep) upgrading a single package is often more than a reasonable amount of work for someone who doesn't know portage. It's encouraged on -dev, mostly because I can change versions of almost anything with no hassle at all. A developer wants python-3.2 on a box that already has 2.4 and 2.7? No problem! I do run Ubuntu on the netbook, but I treat that like it was an Android device or a big web browser i.e. I don't try and get fancy and mostly stick with what the installer and apt want to do. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
