Gentoo Addictions

pip2k · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 12:11 pm Post subject: Gentoo Addictions

You start wandering around looking for your wallet and the first thing that pops into your head is "emerge wallet".

Yes, that really just happened to me :oops:

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Pip

EDIT: Title was "You know you're addicted to Gentoo when..." --pjp

Lovechild · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 12:27 pm Post subject:

hehe... that's nothing...

I sometimes wish I could
emerge rsync && emerge -eu life

to get up to date... however

root@pilot david # emerge life
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "life".

See I have no life

pip2k · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 12:37 pm Post subject:

Maybe someone should create a life ebuild.... probably not possible though, the dependencies would be horrendous.

I wonder how they'd take it over at bugs.gentoo.org if i requested one...

Pip

darktux · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 12:46 pm Post subject:

zawze · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Tau, Norway

I heard rumors of the 'life' feauture from an unsecure informant among the kernel developers. The rumors are based in that after 2.6 is released and they start working on the 2.7 tree - 'life' will be an experimental module. Where will this end?

pilla · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 4:25 pm Post subject:

I prefer a kernel without life -- if it is not alive, you cannot kill it

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Two weeks ago I tried Gentoo the first time and with your incredible support I have now a perfect running system.

WOW! I fixed problems their existance I've never mentioned before.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

No money can countervail the help I got.

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frippz · Guru Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Sweden

Happiness is filling the air...!

idl · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:06 pm Post subject:

Great? yes. Godlike? no.

Aonoa · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589

Yep, no doubt about it. This community is great.

Celtis · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 737

I don't think that I could ever leave Gentoo again purely because of the great help, advice and (occasional) sheer irrelevance of these forums

<1,1,1,1,...> · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 1:30 am Post subject:

Absolutely superb. The documentation is excellent and the forums are extremely helpful. I'll drink to that

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Ian · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 3:22 am Post subject:

Apart from a few times where no one else had my problems, I love these forums, and it's the only reason I stick with Gentoo. I don't see any huge increase in my system speed (old computer doesn't help), I don't have any reason to stay, except for the fact that I can actually get answers to make my computer work from this community.

Yay!

madchaz · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 3:27 am Post subject:

Personaly, I love it here

I have 2 extremes and I love it.

On the one hand I have one of the lesss "user friendly" distributions I have ever tried. Nothing installed, you have to do everything yoursef. I love it.

on the other there is a GREAT community that will help you for when the documentation fails you. And the doc's great

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screwjack · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 16 Location: san diego, ca

This community is fantastic! I just completed my first Gentoo install and while it mostly went smoothly (thanks to some of the finest documentation I've ever seen), I did run into a couple of issues all of which were quickly resolved by searching these forums. Now I find myself falling in love with linux all over again.

Thank you one and all!

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jasonm · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 8:30 am Post subject:

Well, as you can tell from my
<=== info on the left
I've been here a while, and I'm still a noob (What's up with that, by the way!). Thus proving just how helpful these forums are. Most times (95%-ish), the answers are already answered, not requiring me to pester anyone. :lol:

That is great!

Keep up the great work everyone!

jasonm

[EDIT] Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:32 am
Scratch that noob sttuff I mentioned above, I just reached Tux's lil' helper

WOO HOO!!!
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shagrat · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

You better go to: http://www.anonymousgentooists.org

Inte · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:33 am Post subject:

shagrat · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

dvink · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2003 Posts: 55

Hi Inte!

The online documentation and Gentoo forum is an absolute gift from the heavens. All other linux distros just don't seem to get it (no flamebait intended) :wink:

Ich wunsche dir alles Gentoo Gute.

Lovechild

ebrostig · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:02 pm Post subject:

masseya · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:15 pm Post subject:

wormstrangler · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 12

I installed it for my first time ever at the start of the week. It took me 3 whole days to get it up and running with KDE, sound, graphics and a perfectly made kernel.

After playing with it for a couple of hours I re-partitioned my hard drive and reinstalled windows. As soon as I booted into my new win2000 install(need to run Autocad 2004 and my precious games), I was hit with msblaster. What a nice present to be giving for returning to windows.

The problem now is that I think I'm addicted to the actual installation of Gentoo (who cares about using it? That's what windows is for

). I want to do it again and see how fast I can do it. I reckon I can get it down to a day. Must...resist. I think I'll get another hard-drive so I can dual boot and so I can hone my Gentoo installation skills.

nin_freak_ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 110

you're a sick little man