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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Colleen Beamer [mailto:colleen.beamer@×××××.com] |
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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 4:34 PM |
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To: chriswhite@g.o; gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo |
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Chris White wrote: |
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> So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're |
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an |
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> actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be |
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fancy, you |
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> can put "community" or something if that's all you want. All |
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responses off |
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> list please. Thanks. |
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[user] |
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I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not the average |
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user. I was first exposed to Gentoo when someone I know was touting the |
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control that it gave you. I *hate* Gnome (sorry, don't mean to insult |
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any Gnome users - it's just a personal opinion). The bloat of having to |
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have two desktops on my system drove me nuts when I was using Redhat and |
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then, Fedora. So, like others, control is a *big* plus - I can install |
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only what I want! |
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Nothing I can really disagree with. I *am* a grandfather, and have been |
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a hardware/firmware engineer for 15 years. |
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I've tried RedHat, SuSe, never could get past old Debian annoying text |
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scripts that just got in the way of what was really important, long live |
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Linux. Gentoo gets down to the technical details of actually installing |
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a new OS as anything in the Linux World...period. |
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Cheers. |
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BYoung_AT_Debug1.Com Dual 2.0GHz AMD Opteron...cheers (dual boot 32bit |
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Windows, 64bit Gentoo) |
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Portage - in my opinion, it is the best package manager in Linux, bar |
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none. |
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Documentation - Bar none, Gentoo has the best and most easily understood |
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online documentation |
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This list - I've always been able to turn to the list when I needed |
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help, (Thanks guys!) |
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Sorry, I know this is long, but there are just too many reasons why I |
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use Gentoo and why I will stick with it! :-) |
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Take care, |
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Colleen |
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