-----Original Message----- From: Colleen Beamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo
Chris White wrote: > So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an > actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you > can put "community" or something if that's all you want. All responses off > list please. Thanks. [user] I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not the average user. I was first exposed to Gentoo when someone I know was touting the control that it gave you. I *hate* Gnome (sorry, don't mean to insult any Gnome users - it's just a personal opinion). The bloat of having to have two desktops on my system drove me nuts when I was using Redhat and then, Fedora. So, like others, control is a *big* plus - I can install only what I want! Nothing I can really disagree with. I *am* a grandfather, and have been a hardware/firmware engineer for 15 years. I've tried RedHat, SuSe, never could get past old Debian annoying text scripts that just got in the way of what was really important, long live Linux. Gentoo gets down to the technical details of actually installing a new OS as anything in the Linux World...period. Cheers. -- BYoung_AT_Debug1.Com Dual 2.0GHz AMD Opteron...cheers (dual boot 32bit Windows, 64bit Gentoo) ****** Quote: ******************************************************* Portage - in my opinion, it is the best package manager in Linux, bar none. Documentation - Bar none, Gentoo has the best and most easily understood online documentation This list - I've always been able to turn to the list when I needed help, (Thanks guys!) Sorry, I know this is long, but there are just too many reasons why I use Gentoo and why I will stick with it! :-) Take care, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
