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jgaz
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 Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:17 pm Post subject: New Here, I just want to introduce myself |
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Hi, I'm new here. I've used Gentoo intermittently for a long time. The first time I used it was before the wiki went down due to hardware failure (or a breach?). That was a long time ago. I was just a user, I wasn't active in the community or anything. I actively used OpenBSD at work back then, and wanted something close to that experience on a Linux kernel.
Recently, I have back to Gentoo for a few reasons.
I had been using Arch for a long time, but eventually I found packages that I wanted to modify. But, even with AUR and very nice tools like trizen it was not nearly as flexible as Portage.
Also, I recently build a small home lab with some repurposed thin clients and a small cluster of Raspberry Pi 4's. I wanted something that would run more or less the same no matter what hardware I threw at it. Gentoo quickly became an obvious choice, especially after I ran into a NIC driver issue in other Linux distributions I tried. It was a nice surprise to find that genkernel didn't even blink at my thin clients' NICs. So, Gentoo won by being rock solid.
I write code, but don't consider myself a developer. I prefer Perl over Python as it's a better fit for the problems I find myself presented with. It really rocks the "better shell" vibe. Despite all of the hate Perl gets, I sense a bit of a resurgence in the language lately. Raku is fun and extremely flexible too. But, I'm new to the language and I don't know it as well as I'd like.
I also play around with assembly language on 8-bitters and fancy myself a "source code archeologist." That title is a bit of a stretch at my current skill level. But the essence of it is: I sometimes peck away at old 8-bit era games and try to take a closed binary back to serviceable macro assembly. It's tedious, but fascinating. |
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psycho
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:09 am Post subject: Re: New Here, I just want to introduce myself |
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Hi 6502. Welcome back.
| 6502 wrote: | | I also play around with assembly language on 8-bitters and fancy myself a "source code archeologist." That title is a bit of a stretch at my current skill level. But the essence of it is: I sometimes peck away at old 8-bit era games and try to take a closed binary back to serviceable macro assembly. It's tedious, but fascinating. |
Hence 6502. I was envious of my Apple II and C64 owning friends; having said that, I loved my Z80-based Spectrum. I guess having been just the right age for it (old enough to write programs but young enough to feel like it was magic that they actually worked), I'll always have a soft spot for the 8-bit era: it was so diverse (computers with their green-screen CRT monitors built into one unit with the keyboard and floppies...computers with cassette tape drives built onto the ends of their keyboards...computers with huge cartridge slots for ROM cartridges on top...ah, the good old days) and somehow despite the fact that there are objectively far more hardware configurations around these days, it all feels a bit soulless and similar when most of it's built for Windows. Admittedly waiting 20 minutes for an 8-bit era home computer game to load from cassette tape (or maybe an hour, if the first couple of attempts failed) probably wouldn't be tolerable any more, but salvaging them for modern retro gaming is a hobby I can understand. |
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mustafasalih1993
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Hello 6502 and welcome back,
I recently decided to use Gentoo as my daily driver due to the Portage flexibility too,
also i noticed that Gentoo community is really nicer and mature than other Linux communities,
its really nice to see more people join this community. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:20 am Post subject: |
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6502,
I still have a working APPLE ][ and another one that has a failed 16k bit DRAM.
Yead, one of the big ones. :)
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jgaz
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | 6502,
I still have a working APPLE ][ and another one that has a failed 16k bit DRAM.
Yead, one of the big ones.  |
My C64c still works too. I have some broken C64's and C128's floating around that I haven't had the chance to fix and then kit out. |
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psycho
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Oh...the C128...that was my dream computer...I coveted that for years, though I'm not sure I ever even saw one (except in magazines), let alone owned one. We used CP/M at my school so the idea of a C64 (already something I coveted) with more RAM and better BASIC and a CP/M mode too was like some kind of perfect computer fantasy to me. Eventually it could even run a UNIX-like OS (LUnix)...it would be pretty amazing to host something like a C128 nostalgia site on an actual C128 
PS: The mighty 2MHz mode... such power... |
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jgaz
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| psycho wrote: | Oh...the C128...that was my dream computer...I coveted that for years, though I'm not sure I ever even saw one (except in magazines), let alone owned one. We used CP/M at my school so the idea of a C64 (already something I coveted) with more RAM and better BASIC and a CP/M mode too was like some kind of perfect computer fantasy to me. Eventually it could even run a UNIX-like OS (LUnix)...it would be pretty amazing to host something like a C128 nostalgia site on an actual C128
PS: The mighty 2MHz mode... such power... |
The Amiga was my dream machine that I never got to experience. I'm waiting for the Apollo stand alone to mature just a bit more and then I'll buy one. I really want to see a version with Zorro slots for expansion. Also, a I'm absolutely getting my hands on a Mega65 and the 8-bit Guy's Commander X16. |
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maalth
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: New Here, I just want to introduce myself |
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Also, I recently build a small home lab with some repurposed thin clients and a small cluster of Raspberry Pi 4's. I wanted something that would run more or less the same no matter what hardware I threw at it. Gentoo quickly became an obvious choice, especially after I ran into a NIC driver issue in other Linux distributions I tried. It was a nice surprise to find that genkernel didn't even blink at my thin clients' NICs. So, Gentoo won by being rock solid.
6502, welcome back. I too just returned after a major life event. This community has always been home to me. I concur that OS is indeed rock solid. I've always been one to have the OS optimized to the installed hardware. I ran a dual PIII 800 for many years. I lost that machine while in storage. It was destroyed by the storage unit's fire suppression system that went off for no reason. I've since put together an AMD 64 system that gentoo will be installed on. I tested it with a live USB stick to ensure that everything is properly detected. I also have a Raspberry PI 2 and a Pine 64 that I haven't decided what I'll do with as of yet.
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NeddySeagoon
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maalth,
The Pine64 can run 64 bit Gentoo.
The Pi2 was a bit of an oddball. Most of them were 32 bit armv7a only.
The Rev 1.2 board has the 64 bit Pi3 CPU. If you have one of those, it can run 64 bit gentoo too.
It was more a Pi3B- than a Pi2 :)
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