I love Gentoo! :D

helmers · Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2002 9:19 pm Post subject: I love Gentoo! :D

Yes I do. It's great! Don't know where to express my feelings, so I'm doing it here

A great THANK YOU to all gentoo developers!

rac · Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2002 9:23 pm Post subject:

OTG to Chat.
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V0.Wick3d · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada

indeed Gentoo is the best distro i did try so far,
and it a young distribution compared to redhat, slackware, debian and mandrake.
i told you give gentoo 1 or 2 year and it will be the best distribution available

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

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alshain · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 6:12 am Post subject: Re: I love Gentoo! :D

Curious · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 6:18 am Post subject: Re: I love Gentoo! :D

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klondike_kid · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Los Banos, CA

I agree that Gentoo is the best distribution out at this time. I know that there will be many more people coming over this way when the 1.4 comes out, with some of the new ISO's, espically.

I have a friend that is part of the dev team, and he was telling me about some of the ISO's that are mentioned in the Robbins article (with precompiled KDE and such) making the setup take an hour or less. That will be a big benefit to the community and this distro. (I see it as being a stage4 setup, but dont know if it will be named as such)

As with anything new, there will be a few quirks, that will make some people run away immediately, but quality issues are improving at a very rapid pace.
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therion12 · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 41 Location: Chicago, IL

I wish i feel the same right now. I cannot boot back into gentoo, cant load ncurses after a update world

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rac · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 6:43 pm Post subject:

Maybe AAARGH-Help!! Portage nuked libncurses.so.5 and/or https://forums.gentoo.org/faq.php#4 will help.
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Lovechild · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: I love Gentoo! :D

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nalin · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:35 pm Post subject:

I dont know how I stumbled upon gentoo, but I sure am glad I did...

As one who is relatively new to linux, or atleast to a perminant linux partition on my harddrive, I went through more distros that I can remember before finding gentoo: Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, Deb...I tried them all and a number of others...Seeing as I saw strengths and weaknesses in each, at one point I had 3 distros on my drive and was auditing for a fourth distro.

I stubled upon gentoo because it was one of very few on linuxiso.org that had an i686 installation cd. While custom kernel configuration and the very manual intallation in general was rather new to me (i had done the former under a number of distros but it tended to break stuff so I wasnt a big fan), I decided to go for it, mostly because I set out to learn linux, not just to use it. Though the installations(plural) seemed complex, the documentation was as good as one could have asked for and, well im sure those on the forums know this stuff...

In any case, I think gentoo beats anything else I have ever seen hands down, the speed and stability are awesome, the fact that you guys as a community are posting to the forums and answering my (stupid) questions floors me, and inspires me to be a better member of the community, from trying to answer the questions of others, to bug reports, and recently a bug fix (that,by the way,was a pretty cool feeling).

I dunno, I just wanted to spout the word of gentoo, as it seems some who love thier OS tend to do. I think its awesome that despite the predominence of other os's, the sheer number of linux distrubutions out there, etc, I have found the distrubution made for me.

A big thank you to the developers behind gentoo and the users who are so giving of their time

slais-sysweb · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 221 Location: London

I realised today what is the best feature of Gentoo: unlike other distributions it does not attempt to install everthing at once. To get Gentoo running takes a weekend 'tis true but there is very little to key in, just a lot of waiting on the compiler. Linux distributions are not just a kernel, not just an operating system, but a collection of application software for just about every purpose. Distributions that present the options for all this in one install proceedure are bound to get complicated and bloat. With Gentoo first you get the foundation just right, then place each app just as needed. Portage makes that progress very easy.
What is probably still lacking is the documentation for ebuild packages that matches the quality of the install doc for the base system. For example starting sshd is _so_ easy when you know how, (search these forums for the answer if you don't know) but I am ceratianly not the only person to have spent time reading the standard docs and trying to generate keys with keygen before finding there was an easier way that just worked.
Well, in a month or two I should have some free time and a fully installed Gentoo server farm at work so I can contribute some documentation. In the meantime thanks to everyone who makes this such an elegant (less is more) distro.
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theplatypus · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 44

Gentoo is everything I ever imagined and more. If I can get UT up and running I might not ever boot winblows again. Gentoo kicks a$$.

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