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bent
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 Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:26 am Post subject: Gentoo today, from an old hand |
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I used Gentoo as my daily os from 2003 to about 2011. I was there when Gentoo was "dying", when it died, and when it died again. I'm back using it after a break of 14 years.
Wow! It's so good now. The Wiki is excellent, the community is mature, QA has improved and portage is solid. You're all doing such a good job.
I'm still getting to up to speed, but I have more time this year and I'm going to start trying to help out where I can, with bug reports/fixes and wiki edits. If you see me around, please let me know how I'm doing as an old hand but also kinda noob :wink:
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 10:58 am Post subject: |
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bent,
Nobody leaves Gentoo. We knew you would come back but we didn't know when. :)
Welcome back.
It you want to see how much Gentoo has improved, try Historical Gentoo.
You did that at the time ... how much do you remember?
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bent
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
You did that at the time ... how much do you remember? |
What I definitely remember is /etc/make.conf and /usr/portage because I'm still typing them instead of the new paths at least once a day.
I remember 'releases'. I remember being the only one that was sad when the default X11 pattern got patched out. XMMS.
That's a cool article, thanks for writing it. We had the same CPU, seems like those K6-2's were everywhere.
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Zucca
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| bent wrote: | | K6-2's were everywhere. |
I had one too. I used one until at least 2005. It was installed on on box which had the duty to measure the electricity consumption (signals were read trough parallel port). Fun times.
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