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> On 4/16/07, Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Nearly 28. Been using gentoo since version 1.0 (maybe pre-1.0 but can't |
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> remember). |
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> I started using linux back when slackware fit on a bunch of 5.25" floppies. |
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ooohhh.... you are an old time Linux user. i am 26 and i started |
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using Linux 1.5 years ago with Fedora Core 3 and did dual-boot my |
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system with Windows XP and after 6 months i got rid of that crappy OS |
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and made my system fully GNU(ish) . it was Celeron 600 MHz . i loved |
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GNOME too much at that time. |
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after some months, i had some trouble with my new D-Link router and |
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felt totally frustrated when i tried Fedora's sysconfig GUI tools and |
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for the 1st time in my life i got a chance to meet my 1st |
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configuration text file "/etc/resolv.conf", next one i hit was |
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"/etc/hosts". it was really difficult and coool.... at the same time |
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because i felt i am controlling my machine which was never possible |
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with Windows. after some more time passed, i installed Debian and used |
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it over a long time and just 3 months ago i started hating Desktop |
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things, i looked into some other distros and used many: gnewSense, |
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KATEOS, SOURCEMAGE, Lunar, Arch and lots of others and my hatred |
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towards Desktop based system grew in large proportions. i tried Gentoo |
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this time and did quit, it looked too weired to me, finally i landed |
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with Arch and ran Xfce on the top of it as Arch Linux forces a user to |
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manage his system using command-line tools BUT that was not what i was |
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looking for. it seems like i had "the GNU OS effect" a.k.a "the UNIX |
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effect" a.k.a "command-line addiction" wired into me and when i read |
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this: |
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http://ironphoenix.org/tril/fvwm/ |
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i came to know i was not the only one, so i finally quit the Xfce and |
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landed onto Window Maker on Arch. i was not satisfied yet and my |
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journey reached at Gentoo Linux, NO Xfce, NO GNOME ....no GUI tools |
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and menus..... i feel good now, i am running Window Maker for now but |
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will switch to another Window Manager where i will make design-use by |
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own hands, like FVWM, IceWM or Sawfish,i am just reading the different |
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articles on these. i think one day i will land on GNU Screen with |
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RatPoison but for now a Window Manager will rule:-) |
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> I now work full time at a startup in the silicon valley watching over 4 |
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> datacenters full of CentOS machines (and some Solaris). |
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good got any job for me there... ;-) |
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may be i could make some money and buy an LCD monitor, for keeping |
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eyes n good condition |
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http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ |
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