What is the one thing you love most about Gentoo?

Kateikyoushi · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 39

Portage and this BBS.

Doctor Corndog · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:18 am Post subject:

Well, I'm a TOTAL newbie to linux, but I will say this. Gentoo is hard, very hard for me. I have to google for commands on a daily basis, but the forums here are great. There are a lot of experienced people I can ask for help anytime I need it, with no flaming and no "Google it for yourself" responses. I like the whole portage thing, I think it's pretty impressive. When I describe Gentoo to someone who knows nothing about anything other than Wintendo, I mosty mention portage.

seank · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 686

Someone please define "dependency hell"

Kateikyoushi · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 39

I guess they solved the dependency hell but when I start to use linux I switched to FreeBSD because of this dependency misery.
I install a software it needed a few packages which had their own dependencies so it took a while to get all the neceserry packages installed each with their own dependencies. Unfortunately it happened that two applications depended on different versions of a package this is where I had enough.

The Mad Crapper · Apprentice Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 156

the install process

and portage

diilbert · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 52

issiah · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 11 Location: canada

the one thing i most like about gentoo is i can have it my way. i personally like the stage one build simply because i can build everything how i want it the way i want it. now don't get me wrong it an't easy, but who out there wants easy when easy breaks. i feel that you learn more with gentoo than any other OS and you know what to do when things get hairy. you don't just sit around and say "oh well let me try again" no you try and try until you get it right then you got it and once you got it it is all good. think about this, gentoo is the only OS that can port to any OS and you have so many unique kernels and always new. every development is right there at you finger tips. you don't have to wait two to three years for another well i think we got all the bugs out of it this time. the eye candy is there if you want it or not and the speed is most certainly right there. i took windows off my system and my box runs cleaner with gentoo and Linux. the best part is what other system out there can you build your software how you like it on the fly. Issiah
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massysett · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject:

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Fenster · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

When the hell did I make this post? O.o
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The Mad Crapper · Apprentice Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 156

"Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:55 pm" =P

diilbert · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 52

The Mad Crapper · Apprentice Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 156

Yeah, Gentoo (portage) rocks the casbah.

I was reading this paper about debian Linux and how wonderful it was, and how you could build it to be whatever you needed blah blah blah. And i thought i would try it out, but i am just not motivated. I just love Gentoo to much.

revertex · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 806

The buggish part.
Sleepless nights trying to figure what a heel goin wrong.
I can't complain, it help me a lot to learn a bit more about linux.

The Mad Crapper · Apprentice Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 156

MetalGod · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:49 am Post subject:

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MetalGod · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject:

it's not an opinion it's a reality GLI will be a larger step in new horizons (enterprise i.e). If you want to use the old method i'm sure you can use it.
Of course there will be more surprises and new improvements.
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bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

No dependency hell

The forums

The devs/community who make it all work
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karsten_s · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:32 am Post subject: there is no one thing!

hmm... I stumbled across this thread and decided it is a good place for my very first Gentoo Forums Post!

Seriously. I bought a new harddrive on Jan 02 and went to installing gentoo that very night. Ever since I've spent countless hours configuring and tweaking and emerging and compiling and just loving this distro. What's probably best is, as many have already said, the awesome community :thumbsup:

Thanks to the combined strength of (in order):

* the Gentoo Forums
* the Gentoo Wiki
* Google

I have so far been able to solve every single problem I have come across in the last three weeks. I've also found awesome hints and tips on these Forums, regarding software I wasn't even aware of!

Just so you know, I'm desperately waiting for the end of the semester, so I can migrate my laptop to gentoo, too!

What else I love about gentoo:

* portage
* gentoolkit
* compiling my own kernels (I'm right now doing it for the 11th-or-so-time...)
* finding out about E17

[*]and, as one of my father's colleagues always used to say:

The Mad Mahdi · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:02 am Post subject:

Portage and the Community are what make Gentoo the best distro out there.

Or indeed, in here! :lol: