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I'm a little reluctant to say this, but it's been a couple of months now |
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since I switched back to Gentoo, and I want to shout out my pleasure that |
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this system has been performing admirably well this time around, in |
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comparison with earlier installations. None of the earlier installations |
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were unacceptable, in fact, Gentoo remained my favorite. I moved to Ubuntu |
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because maintainance of the Gentoo boxes was much more time consuming. |
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I've watched Gentoo plummet in the popularity ratings, for example at |
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distrowatch. I've watched as the best documentation EVER on gentoo wiki has |
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fallen off the edge of the world---indeed, I am grief-stricken and perplexed |
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about that. I had to debate with myself about whether to go back to |
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Gentoo. Ubuntu had played to many tricks on me, at great personal cost. I |
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finally made the leap, and it was a soft landing indeed. |
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I scoffed at the email from this list saying that emerge -uDva world and |
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revdep-rebuild problems were not normal! I had posted that I had NEVER (in |
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a couple of years or more of Gentoo use) gotten all the way through a |
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maintainance cycle of emerge -uDva --newuse world, revdep-rebuild, and |
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emerge --depclean. I never had (or perhaps very, very seldom), and I spent |
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a lot of time working on it. Still the system more or less worked. |
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Now, however, I have not had any such problem, or maybe I should say, the |
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one or two times I have it was easy to fiigure things out. This is a major |
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turnaround. |
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Is it because I'm more experienced, or perhaps more cautious? I am running |
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~amd64, and have several overlays installed under layman. I don't know, but |
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I tend to think the distribution is more mature. |
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Perhaps this isn't the best place to put a word of thanks. It's the best I |
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will do for now. Thank you to all the developers and all the list people |
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who have consistently given the highest and most professional level of |
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assistance to a rather clueless user. And never a cranky wine, like on |
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other lists, never any complaint. This is typical, and always has been with |
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Gentoo's community. |
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I hope that at some point I can help with at least the documentation, |
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although I surely don't wish to pollute the space of the best docs (IMHO) in |
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the linux community. |
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Go figure: the popularity figures plunge, but the distro just gets better |
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and better. Viva Gentoo... |
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Now I can go and get lost in the upgrade of gcc. |
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Alan Davis |
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Alan Davis |
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when |
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you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... |
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So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. |
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----Richard Feynman |