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Greetings, |
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I am new to Gentoo user. I have been using Linux since slackware was the |
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only distro. I had been using Red Hat for many years until Red Hat until |
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they out grow the desktop users. I tried Mandrake for a while and found it |
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was a pain to upgrade applications or install new applications because of |
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version shew of GTK, etc. Then other things would break. |
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I had stayed away from Gentoo because of the "high maintains". But I |
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couldn't find anything else that seem to fit my needs. So I gave Gentoo a |
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go and have regretted it every since. Regretted not doing it years before |
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that is. |
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I can understand why it is a distro for experts. First it takes away too |
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long to compile everything and configuring the kernel isn't for a linux |
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newbee either. That is the downside, the upside is that you only have to do |
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it once. Then you can keep everything up to date with emerge. So far I |
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have installed 3 systems with Gentoo and I am going to try to make it the |
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standard at my company. The tools are great! emerge, rc-update, |
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etc-update, etc. |
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I am a very happy user. |
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Darryl Wagoner - WA1GON |
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"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke [1729-1797] |