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Unlike many linux users I started with linux and had to learn windows |
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later. In both cases I was already an `old man'. On my fiftieth |
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birthday in 1996, I started with Redhat linux somewhere in the 3X |
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version area. |
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I stumbled and plunged, plunged and stumbled all the way up to now. |
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And here 10 yrs later am still capable of asking dead stupid |
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questions. |
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It may not show too much but I have learned hugely along the way. |
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I finally tired of redhat (by then it was the fedora branch) and had |
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tried quite a few others along the way, |
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Slackware, Debian were really the only two `others' for quite a |
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while but then I tried mandrake and suse too. |
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Always returning to redhat/fedora in the end for the simple fact I |
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knew it best. |
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So none of the others held enough draw for me to drop redhat/fedora. |
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Until I met Gentoo. About 1 1/2 yrs ago now. |
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It wasn't love at first boot as many here have reported but by then I |
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was tired of the need to basically reinstall every few mnths or face |
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the dependancy hell people have mentioned that can arise in rpm |
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systems. |
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I bounced back and forth for a few wks until I finally learned enough |
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to keep my gentoo system up and have some confidence I knew how to |
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upgrade etc. |
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Unlike some posters here I haven't noticed that this list is really |
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much different than the old redhat now fedora lists. Only to say that |
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the old redhat lists seemed to have more real experts than the later |
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Fedora branch lists. |
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But both were incredibly helpfull too. This list follows a long linux |
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tradition of being very helpful to new and not so new users. Gentoo |
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lists may well be setting the high water mark in having a high |
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`real experts' ratio. |
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The only real breach I ever noticed in that tradition was Debian lists |
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which (Putting on asbestos drawers now) are very snotty and have a |
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religious zealot overtone not found elsewhere. |
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And now finally getting to the point: In a brief summary one might |
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say: |
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emerge -u world |
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and all the emerge jobs in between when needing specific tools. That |
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is, the emerge/portage system is really a well rounded, and robust |
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software managing tool. |
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