Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

[Darryl Wagoner]

Greetings,

I am new to Gentoo user.  I have been using Linux since slackware was the only distro.  I had been using Red Hat for many years until Red Hat until they out grow the desktop users.  I tried Mandrake for a while and found it was a pain to upgrade applications or install new applications because of version shew of GTK, etc.  Then other things would break. 

I had stayed away from Gentoo because of the "high maintains".  But I couldn't find anything else that seem to fit my needs.  So I gave Gentoo a go and have regretted it every since.  Regretted not doing it years before that is.

I can understand why it is a distro for experts.  First it takes away too long to compile everything and configuring the kernel isn't for a linux newbee either.  That is the downside, the upside is that you only have to do it once.  Then you can keep everything up to date with emerge.  So far I have installed 3 systems with Gentoo and I am going to try to make it the standard at my company.  The tools are great!  emerge, rc-update, etc-update, etc. 

I am a very happy user.


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Darryl Wagoner - WA1GON

"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."  - Edmund Burke [1729-1797]