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On Thursday 05 July 2007 02:40, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I use Gentoo precisely because it's easy. I am not a programmer, and |
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> cannot do a manual project. I rely on others' makefiles. My |
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> "programming expertise" consists of... |
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[snip . . .] |
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I echo Walter's comments on my use of Gentoo. However, I am not sure as |
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others have argued that Gentoo keeps newbies away. Well not all newbies |
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anyway. When I started using Gentoo back in 2003/04 my total experience in |
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Linux was absolutely minimal. I had only booted Knoppix a few times. If it |
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wasn't for the handbook, docs and of course the forums, I would have probably |
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walked away defeated. Thankfully, Gentoo was a relatively painless and |
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rewarding experience (despite that back then I was installing from a stage 1, |
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and it was failing for a number of reasons). Having had a chance of |
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experimenting with Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu I found SUSE the easiest to |
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update/upgrade, but nothing compared with the ease of portage and its |
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configuration options. |
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I would probably disagree that Gentoo is a dying distro - would think of it |
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more of a maturing distro like it was mentioned earlier. The natural |
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evolution of Gentoo may be that portage hands over to paludis soon |
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as a superior package management system, but who knows? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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