It is right to give them thanks & praise (Gentoo devs, etc.)

zbindere · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 356 Location: Switzerland

I think it is time to say thank you for that great distribution. I am using Linux since almost 5 years. I was never really
happy with a disribution and I never used one more than half a year. Now I can say I am using gentoo more than a year and
I am still happy with it.

I think developers get a lot of the following feedback:

So this time I want to thank all people developing gentoo.

THANK YOU

mod edit: Converted the topic to lowercase.
amne

changed title from "Thank you Gentoo developers" as a few threads have been merged into this one.
--pjp
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R!tman · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

I'll double that ;-)

.

Thank you all!

Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

Nice one zbindere

I'm sure they will appreciate that. There is far too much complaining and not enough thank yous...

djpharoah · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject:

muchas gracious developers

thanks a lot of devs for making gentoo the best meta-distro linux has ever seen

mrsteven · Veteran Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 1939

Yes, as a satisfied user for now 1.5 years, I have to thank you all!!!

Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2076

Indeed, Great Job, love ya all

Agilo · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject:

All I have to say is that I'm also very thankful.

I prefer Gentoo over all other distributions I've tested (so far: Slackware, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSe and DamnSmallLinux (is that even to be considered an OS?).)
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christsong84 · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

Signed

We may not express is often enough at times but thanks...without you, I'd still be in rpm dependancy hell (and trust me...it wasn't pretty >.<)
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bishop00s · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:

gentoo has made me a happy computer user. i no longer need to use windows for anything at home! Thanks much!
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kimchi_sg · Advocate Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 3039

Thanks for making this THE distro with 1001 installation methods! :-P

Btw, I've linked to here from my sig... let's have more people express their gratitude! :-D

bet1m · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject:

thanks GENTOOOOOOOO

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loki99 · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject:

dankeschoen! ich sag daaankeschoen.........

Jiffy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 86

Just wanted to say "Thank you" too!

Jiffy

CitizenX · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject:

I'll DEFINATELY add myself to this one....I was a dualboot user for a long time....WinXP and Mandrake (hell I remember buying 7.0 ). My kids used the games on the linux side and I played windows games and did a lot of work on the windows side. I finally just got tired of mandrake and switched to windows full time. Took me about 6 months of spyware, adware, viruses, crashes, and just plain non-productivity to get fed up with it. I heard good things about Gentoo from my 3d forums (elysiun.com...yeah I'm a Blenderhead) , and decided to try it. Took me a week to install because I screwed up something (read read read the documentation....then read it again). I finally had to reinstall and took notes step by step. Now I find that all my programs run faster on Gentoo (Blender is just blazing now), I've got a more stable system (I laugh at my girlfriend every time Windows crashes or does something stupid ..."I just opened a webpage...why does it want to install a new printer????"), and I'm able to tweak anything on my system...which i LOVE.

But the best of all....portage. I got tired of linux because it took so much to manage packages....rpm's are a pain in the neck. Once I started working with portage, its like magic. I tell my girlfriend I love portage at least once a week, and I tell her I love linux at least every day (and I make sure to tell her I love her more when I say that). I make fun of her whenever I have to install something on her system because she can't figure it out....I keep telling her to type emerge and the program name (then usually duck to avoid something being thrown my way). I love portage, love the documentation, love love love the forums. Gentoo is the best thing since fermented bread.

aqua26 · Guru Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 313 Location: India

Thanks a lot for such a strong & powerful Distro.
I am amazed with the gr8 Documention.
thanks a lot for gr8 distro.

I am very happy to bye bye to RPM & windows forever. :lol:

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codergeek42 · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks for an excellent distro with a great community and excellent documentation!

*HUG* <3 (^_^)
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Karsten from Berlin · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject:

Yes!

Thank you. I'm a Gentoo user for about one year now. In the meantime all linux boxes (servers & desktops) of my company were changed to Gentoo (from Red Hat/Fedora).

I have a long way behind: From Mandrake to LinuxFromScratch, after that Red Hat and finally the best distro ever: Gentoo.

High performance of the boxes, best scalability (Red Hat users don't know much about CFLAGS), very good docs and great forum support.

A big THANK YOU for all your work and sleepless nights.
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No_Problem · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:50 am Post subject:

I just post, to say.... THANK YOU!!

This distro was what make me look at linux in another way so that I started to like it.
Before gentoo I looked at linux (in the university) and just use because I had to, not for the fun as now

float- · Apprentice Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 174

you can support gentoo linux by donating

http://store.gentoo.org/

mcimaster · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 71

Hello!

I want to say "thank you" too! I used Windows and SuSE before gentoo.
You have opened my eyes! And yes I'm proud to say:" I LOVE GENTOO".

P.S.: Dziekuje wam! Kocham gentoo!

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Ben2040 · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 445 Location: UK

Hi

I have to agree - big w00t to the Gentoo developers!!!

Ben (pround user of Gentoo for 4 years)

Arkham · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:

Very nice indeed..

I´ve been a full "hard-disk" linux user from about 1 year, and a gentoo user for 6 months...and after tested almost all the other distros, It feels nice to say: "This is MY distro"; I just dont see any reason why to change it..

Also on this 6 lovely months

I´ve turned 3 windows and 1 debian user to gentoo. It´s just that portage probably is one of the best piece of software ever.... I tried to install to my friends Mandrake, because it was "the more user-friendly and easy to use"... NAH.. It could be easy to setup and use.... and that lasts for about a couple of months, then the distro comes old and new programs are required... Then the nightmare begins (you know what I mean, finding packages, finding dependencies, install, blah blah blah). It´s a pain in the ass for us Linux-savys

Imagine how it feel for Linux-legos

LONG LIVE "EMERGE LIFE"

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P.D.: Thanks!!

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

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Vielen Dank!
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gentoo_lan · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

Gentoo is by far one of the better distributions out there. Thanks Developers!