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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:08:41
Message-Id: BANLkTikau3KUOC1hTbvgV5x00vhzLrL_kw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last! by Mark Shields
1 On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:58, Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >  On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Hi, Gentoo.
5 >>
6 >> After a few weeks of effort, I've just gone live with my very own Gentoo
7 >> system.  :-)
8 >>
9
10 Hi Alan!
11
12 Welcome to the club :-)
13
14 [-- snip --]
15 >>
16 >> So, thanks for all the help, everybody!
17 >>
18 >> --
19 >> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
20 >>
21 >
22 > Gentoo has it's places, but at the end of the day, I just want my desktop
23 > system to work with little effort on my part.  And be consistent.  Ubuntu
24 > gives me that on a desktop -- well, it did, until they decided to switch to
25 > Unity.  But that's another topic...
26
27 How I wish I can use *any* kind of Linux for my desktop :-/
28
29 > For everything else (re: servers), there's Gentoo :)
30
31 Can't agree more ;-)
32
33 > I run a Gentoo VPS for a website.  I love the flexibility of Gentoo, the
34 > speed, the nothingness you start with and have to mold it together like you
35 > would an artist with a block of clay.
36
37 I was about to post something similar to what you wrote, but you did
38 it much more poetically.
39
40 Rgds,
41 --
42 Pandu E Poluan
43 ~ IT Optimizer ~
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