Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Calm

[Dale]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-04-16, John Blinka <john.blinka@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now.  Thanks for
>> prompting me to add my 2 cents.
> Same here.  I switched all my "daily drivers" from Mandrake/Mandriva
> almost 15 years ago, and have no regrets.  No more of the RPM
> dependancy merry-go-round that used to happen so often.  I've
> reinstalled a couple times after major hardware upgrades (disk
> failure) or decisions to switch from 32 to 64 bits.  But I've never
> needed to routinely reinstall from scratch the way I always had to
> with RPM-based distros (Mandriva and before that RedHat).  With
> RPM-based distros, upgading across major numbers rarely worked.  And I
> always ended up having to build a lot of libraries and apps from
> source anyway because of required library version clashes.
>
> I still have to regularly install and use RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu in
> order to test apps/drivers I maintain -- and I'm always glad when I
> can take off the straigh-jacket and handcuffs and go back to Gentoo.
>
> --
> Grant
>
>

I started using Linux with Mandrake 9.1.  After about six months of
dealing with the dependency problems and that pesky init thingy, I
starting looking for something else.  The upgrades were never easy and
that init thingy would stop working for some reason and then I'd have to
reinstall again.  To this day, I really have no affection for the init
thingy.  Right now, I have three or four sets of kernels/init thingys
around just in case. 

I've installed Mangio, replacement for Mandrake/Mandriva, and it's not
as bad as it once was but I wouldn't want to have to install it here. 
I'm sure after a few upgrades, it would get ugly. 

Moving to Gentoo was the best thing I ever did.  I may change again one
day but it would require some serious screwing up.

Dale

:-)  :-)