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Chris Stankevitz wrote: |
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> Gentoo is the best distribution I have used (I haven't used too many: |
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> ubuntu, fedora, gentoo). I love the USE flags. I love watching (and |
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> questioning) what is going to be installed. I love emerge. |
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> Supposedly gentoo lacks being able to have a system "just work" |
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> without thinking about anything. But in my experience on linux, this |
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> simply isn't the case anywhere. With ubuntu, for example, I had |
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> trouble with sound and ethernet cards that I could never figure out... |
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> and the kind of answers I get on their forums drive me insane ("my |
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> uncle once said that his cousin typed this magical command and it |
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> worked fine for a little while so maybe try that"). |
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> And what's the deal with these "major release versions" of the other |
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> distros? Why do that? |
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> Thank you to all the people who contribute to it... and to those who |
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> are giving great advice/solutions on this list! |
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> Chris |
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You should turn off the quiet build "feature" and watch all the "stuff" |
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scroll by. Maybe just do that when you got some spare time. Brownie |
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points if you can read and understand it all too. lol |
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My brother has recently converted to Linux, with a LOT of my help. I |
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put Kubuntu on his rig. When I need help, I google then I ask here. So |
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far, the folks here seem to know more about *ubuntu than the people that |
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actually have been using it for a while. Sort of funny in a way. Than |
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again, so sad. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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