What is the one thing you love most about Gentoo?

sktrdie · Apprentice Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 153

I like the community most of all....
and of course portage, it's a perfect OS for servers, not much for clients because I don't think users want to waste time compiling when they can get the binary with rpm or .deb

hollywoodcole · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject:

Its the Best! BECAUSE LARRY THE COW SAID SO!
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geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

curtis119 · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:36 pm Post subject:

Oh you guys. Stop, your embarrassing me!

Who am I trying to kid? Keep it coming!

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Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

Yeah, larry's seen it all. He's used all the other distros, decided they suck, and then started to use gentoo. Hard not to trust a cow that's seen it all... but one thing bothers me. Cows don't have fingers, and gentoo requires a hell of a lot of typing. Enigmatic!
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jevidl · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:03 am Post subject:

I think the docs are my favorite part.

I initially was thinking portage, but even if I didn't have portage the documenation would still be fantastic.

omp · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:55 am Post subject:

Well, we all know the best part about gentoo is curtis119 :lol:

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libero · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:21 am Post subject: no more tech weakling

Hey y'all

How about this one:
knowledge

I mean, before Gentoo I was the tech-world equivalent of the 90-pound scrawny weakling at the beach. People would kick sand in my face and I couldn't get a girl.
I mean, I'm still a n00b here right, but -- in the tech-world equivalent -- girls are starting to notice; I'm starting to get a bit of respect around the beach.

In other words, generally-speaking, the learning is the best part of Gentoo, in my eyes.

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dontremember · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:32 am Post subject:

What I like about Gentoo?? Multiple platform support. Back when I started with Gentoo, RedHat had just dropped Sparc support and just about the only other cross-platform version of Linux available was a rather outdated Debian. I *really* like being able to switch between x86 and Sparc systems and have all the same packages with config files in the same places.

NTT · Apprentice Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 188

I like Portage, and the fact that it has no braindead configuration tools to destroy your setting. Admitted, I did have some experiences with etc-update i wasn't too happy about, but now I just remove most etc-update files and i'm happy with it. I really dislike configuration tools touching my precious configuration.

reub2000 · Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 364

ecatmur · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

With USE flags... I use emerge -DuNav world ("--newuse") to update, and any time there's a new USE flag I check it out and see if I might want it.

Generally I tend to think "eh...why not?", so the devs don't like me posting my emerge --info:

StarDragon · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 390 Location: tEXas

One of the things that brought me to Gentoo was versatility, and simplicity. Oh yeah, having a console with a bunch of compile jargon... That's living the dream baby.

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geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Drysh · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:07 am Post subject:

The very best thing is the look on the face of my friends...

What's the name of that app again? emerge Foobar ... startx ... some media player to let the time pass ... Ok... It's instaled and working... -WHAT??? But how??? You were not instaling anything... You were not downloading... And where are the makes? Damn, I did not know there was a binary for that. ... -No, its not a binary, I just emerged it. As a matter of fact, my whole system is compiled here, specialy for THIS box. I'm using Gentoo. ... -Oh! You use Gentoo? (his/her eyes wide open, showing a new respect)

Maybe its not the best thing... But its great to see how people react when they first see a Gentoo box in action.

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

For me it's definitely the cleanliness (who would have thought).

No matter what I install and deinstall later I'll be able to track down left over files (just using cruft and common sense) and delete them. Thanks god Linux doesn't come with a registry :-)

Some could think this is ridiculous, but I like it.

I remember issues after updating udev to a more recent version. Those were fixed my simply removing left over files in /etc/udev. As far as I can remember etc-update didn't show me those, because they weren't replaced, but just protected from removal by portage, because they were configuration files.

Thanks for having me ;-)

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LemurFromTheId · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 64 Location: Finland

The reason I switched to Gentoo (from Windows, after trying some other distros out there) one and a half years ago was that I wanted to have absolute control over the box. I got that.

I stayed because of great package management and even better community.

bLaXe · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject:

I switched to gentoo because I wanted to have control over exactly what was on my system. I used to dual boot with windows2k because I never managed to get a linux based system how I wanted it. Switched to gentoo, 2 months later go rid of windows completely. Haven't missed it one bit.

Portage is fantastic, but the best thing about gentoo is the level of support provided by the forums.

djpharoah · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject:

gentoo is 100% fully customizable.
anything is possible within your imagination

thats why...

oh yeah..cuz the community rox as well

Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

I love teh community. Even when I'm not using 64 bit gentoo I frequent #gentoo-amd64 because of the guys n' gals that hang out in there. Great people, well, most of them. :lol:

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Ma3oxuct · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 523

Ability to play around with ebuilds.

evinay · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Kanpur,India

emerge everything,easiest thing after all!love it!
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Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

If anything I think Portage is probably the most difficult package manager to use out of all the ones I have ever used (Not counting Ports which I have never really played around with enough to really judge fairly.] despite that what keeps me using Gentoo is that I can take obscure app Z from site X and install it the good old fashioned way and chances are its not going to run into nasty devel library dependency BS problems..(assuming the paths are not exotic, which is usually the case luckily.) in one word CONSISTENCY. Aside from Portage the applications themselves are relatively current maybe even alittle too current sometimes but oh well.
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Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

Portage isn't hard to use. I've used several package management systems, and while RPM is point and click, ooo, look how easy that was! Yeah, but I can't do much else with it. Portage is a lot easier to use the way I WANT TO USE IT.
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