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> I got a message from him. At least we will know he is OK. All his |
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> machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore. |
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> So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch. |
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> Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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When you mentioned the other Allan, I thought of Allan Gottlieb, who used to be on Gentoo list. |
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I think he was younger than me by two or three months? |
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I believe he is the same Allan Gottlieb I met years ago at The Rockefeller University when he was an (assistant? associate?) professor at CUNY in New York City. |
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I don't know if he is still living. |
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Regarding Arch, I believe Arch Linux is mainly binary-based, rather than source-based as is the case with Gentoo. |
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In May 2013, I joined Arch Linux emailing lists, asked the question about how an Arch system could be updated by building from source, as can be done with FreeBSD and NetBSD. |
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Moderator rejected that message, stating that if I looked through the wiki, I could find the answer inside ten minutes, which I couldn't. |
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FreeBSD, NetBSD and Gentoo emailing lists are not so hostile! |
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Not wanting to feel so tongue-tied, I unsubscribed and became an infant mortality on the Arch emailing lists. |
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This was the first and only open-source OS or distro that I rejected on sociological grounds. |
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