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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:23:08
Message-Id: 5141CEB0.7030209@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros by Mark David Dumlao
1 On 14/03/2013 14:31, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
2 > On 03/14/2013 07:36 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> On 14/03/2013 13:29, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
4 >>> On 03/14/2013 04:15 PM, Dale wrote:
5 >>>> Also, I read that Nasdaq runs a modified version of Gentoo. Do any
6 >>>> other large corps run it that we know of?
7 >>>>
8 >>> What exactly does it mean to run a "modified version of Gentoo"? Don't
9 >>> we all? ;)
10 >>
11 >> I've always claimed to colleagues that there is no such thing as
12 >> "a running Gentoo".
13 >>
14 >> There's an AlanOS, and a DaleOS and a MarkOS and they are all forks of
15 >> Gentoo, but nobody actually ever runs "Gentoo"
16 >>
17 >> :-)
18 > Smart call that you called it a "running" Gentoo rather than an
19 > "installed" one, because my followup question would have been, "Well
20 > what exactly does it mean to have installed Gentoo? I've had this laptop
21 > two years now and I'm still not done tinkering with it!" ;)
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24 This is my fifth Dell laptop in a row with Gentoo installed. Tinkering?
25 yeah I do that too :-)
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27 Some days this system looks like one of those crazy Wily E. Coyote
28 machines with all the bits I bolt on the back :-)
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33 Alan McKinnon
34 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com