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Hi everyone, |
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it was on my TODO list for 2018 anyways, but as Michal was asking if |
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I'm still active, I decided to speed this up: I'm formally retiring. |
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I haven't done much in recent years and felt like it would be |
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appropriate to formally retire in 2018. I've been an active gentoo |
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user for a very long time, probably since 2005. I've gotten more |
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involved the following years and got the security staff status |
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at some point in 2008-2009. Back in those good old days, I even had time |
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at work to file bugs and work on gentoo security! |
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However, over the years it came apparent that running gentoo is a very |
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time-consuming endeavour, (hello emerge blockers!) and in the past |
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years, I decided to migrate nearly all of our servers and my |
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workstations away from gentoo. |
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Running our business demands stable systems, with reproducible builds |
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and backported security patches, which is kind of hard to do with |
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gentoo. YMMV. I still think it's a great OS if you're willing to invest |
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some time to keep it up to date. :) |
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In my private time, I'll still be a linux user, but a distribution |
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that "just works" is fine with me nowadays. A lot has changed since |
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2005. :) |
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As he's retired for a a long time, he probably won't read this, but |
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special thanks to Robert for being an awesome mentor. :) |
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Thanks to everyone I met on my journey with gentoo, and special thanks |
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to my fellow German folks on that special IRC channel. ;) |
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If anyone is looking for a System Administration or DevOps job in |
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Germany or wants to reach me, feel free to contact me via my company |
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mail: s.behte@××××××.com. |
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- Stefan Behte |