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On 16/04/2016 16:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here. |
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> For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without problems. |
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> I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just works. |
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> The last bit of excitement I had was in early 2015 when I was trying to |
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> sort out the mess in my xfce4 system after gnome-3 had been made stable. |
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> In the end, I gave up and reinstalled Gentoo, which this time took me |
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> only a week. |
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> Admittedly, there's very little which is cutting edge on my system - the |
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> box is 6½ years old, it boots with lilo on an old fashioned BIOS, my |
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> filesystems are ext3 (or in one case, ext2) on spinning rust. The only |
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> remotely adventurous things I've got are RAID-1 (via the kernel) and |
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> lvm2. |
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> So a big thanks to all the developers who've brought about this happy |
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> state of affairs! |
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Awesome name you got there fella :-) |
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My Gentoo experience is much the same as yours although we live and work |
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in very different worlds. My stuff seems to JustWork(tm) almost always |
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even though I use ~arch everywhere except one 10-year old desktop (it's |
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old and slow so I keep it on arch to minimize emerge times). |
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I've only once had a problem I couldn't work my way out of, the |
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above-mentioned desktop has an IDE motherboard and the drive slowly got |
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worse without me noticing till one day it packed up. New, drive |
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reinstall. But with an /etc/ backup it was really just a little more |
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work than emerge -e world. |
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So yes, huge kudos to the gentoo devs for giving us these tools to make |
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all of that possible! |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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