I just stepped back into gentoo after a long too long jump to ubuntu.
I had no time to do all the tinkering of things that is required in
gentoo sometimes.  My ability to do things deminished greatly!.  I am
back in the gentoo seat to remember long lost skills.  I totally did
not like the livecd install.  I went back to the universal install
cd's and all is well.  I am a qa'r so you know what my next test will
be ;).  I think like many distro's people tend to flock to new or new
to them distros to see what its like. Gentoo is one of the distros I
learned the most with as with I am sure many of its other users.
Gentoo still by far ( to me ) has the best documentation and user help
out!

LOVE LIVE GENTOO!

On 12/18/06, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote:
> > I
> > personally still love Gentoo.
>
> What's the problem then? :)

Another question would be, how many of us have made healthy progress in our 
general knowledge of
Linux all thanks to the gentoo user guides/howto(s) and the time spent 
installing gentoo on our
servers?

I really benefited from the "cookbook" approach that the user manual takes.  It 
gently opened my
eyes to many lower level processes that were always shielded from my eyes on 
many other distro's
that I have used.  For this reason Gentoo will always hold a special place in 
my heart. :o)

However, I believe that gentoo's health is completely dependent on the number 
of talented
developers that devote much of their personal time refining and debugging 
portage and it vast
software tree.  IMHO, if we would like to see Gentoo maintain healthy growth, 
more of us happy
<less experienced> users should find ways to assisting the core developers by 
relieving them from
the more mundane & redementry tasks.  I am sure that the portage tree is 
already large enough that
it is a daunting challenge for the limited number of developers to maintain it 
and keep it upto
date with new software releases.

Next time we see a call for assistance in the weekly news letter, we would do 
well to spend a few
hours each week answering that call.

Well that's my two cents anyway.

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.
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