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gm7uac
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 Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: goodbye gentoo...I don't think so.. |
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Well I thought I would be saying goodbye to gentoo, this week my main PC suffered a harddrive failure javascript:emoticon(%27%3A(%27)
being a hardware engineer all my data was backed up on a secondary hard drive  well I was left with the choice of re-installing gentoo or try something different... so I started with SUSE enterprise edition 10, installed fine, looks nice but runs like a three legged dog and none of the applications I use are installed, plus you have to sign in blood that you agree with all there terms and conditions !! don't think so!
So I thought I would try netbsd livecd... it works but it's like going back in time 5 years
So I downloaded slackware 11... my first linux love.. oh boy same old girl still using RH 5 installer and a 2.4 kernel..am I in a timewarp!
Looks like gentoo for me just downloading the livecd i686 install cd... looking forward to broken ebuilds, blocked applications and plenty of choice... bugger!
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wudmx
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| hehe, you see, you live on the edge with gentoo! have fun with it!!! :wink: |
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danja
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heh, same experience here, but with xubuntu.
there everything is working and hell lot of programs installed, but i felt really helpless when i needed to fuse mount (as non-root user), recompile the kernel and other small but very needed tasks.
perhaps it's also that we are just used to gentoo and by now distros are going further and further away from each other, so every innovation/bug/feature puts us in a situation where we intuitively stick back to the HOLY COW. |
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petrjanda
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Joined: 05 Sep 2003
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Location: Brno, Czech Republic
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: Re: goodbye gentoo...I don't think so.. |
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| gm7uac wrote: |
So I thought I would try netbsd livecd... it works but it's like going back in time 5 years
So I downloaded slackware 11... my first linux love.. oh boy same old girl still using RH 5 installer and a 2.4 kernel..am I in a timewarp!
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If you wanted more hardware support you should have tried FreeBSD.
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Zmyrgel
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Arch linux would be a nice too
It needs a bit maturation still but the basics are very promising. i686-optimized, small base install, great package management and packages etc... |
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danja
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| i was always wondering why distro-developers are not going minimalist way and why are there so many forks of the same concepts that (forks) differ too much already. |
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