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

atilla · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject: Thanks, Gentoo!

I did'nt find a "LOVE GENTOO"-topic....
This is a big THANKS to the Gentoo team. "Me loves you"

Every time I type emerge ..something.., and every time I boot up my gentoo-thinkpad, my thougts go to the linux and gentoo-hackers out there who actually typed in all of those characters, for users they don't know (including me).

I just wanted to say: Thanks! You are doing a heck of a job, making things easy and fun for us.

I can't quite understand why people say stuff like "Gentoo sucks" and "Sick of Gentoo" ...??
Nobody forced them to download and use Gentoo, right?
Did they pay for Gentoo? Probably not!
Did the gentoo-hackers promise special-treatment? Probably not!
Did the gentoo-hackers promise to include every fun-to-have app available? Probably not!

"Not beautiful as Mac OS X"....?? I have to ask... what are you using your computer to? Buy a painting or a MAC!!

"This and that doesn't work under Linux" ... well, whine to the producers, not to the hackers who is actually trying to make it work! - Have you ever seen a "Linux drivers/documentation"-CD with your newly purchased gadgets??

"Doesn't have a zillion games to choose from" ... Buy a playstation or whine to the gamemakers!

Why whine about "soooo important" things like eye-candys??
I just cant figure out; what excactly these people are going to use their tool (,the computer,) to...?

So, pretty please, with sugar on top: STOP WHINING!! Be happy, be wery-wery happy, that some developers actually use hours after hours working on Gentoo, so people can use it.

After using x-variants of systems for x-platforms, I'm now using Gentoo-linux.
I am _not_ expecting everything to work 100% perfect all the time.
I am _not_ sitting at home/work and thinking that gentoo-developers reach a point where thay say: "Done! Now everything works perfect, now we can stop hacking on gentoo".

So..... my point is, nothing is perfect! And when it comes to programs and OS'es .....perfect you say...? Maybe today, but tomorrow is a new day when new thinking and new gadgets will see the light of day.
My opinion: Gentoo is perfect (for me)! If something is not working, it will most probably be a temporary problem which will be patched. If not, I have to get up from my so lazy a** and figure it out!
And if I really-really want something that is not in portage, I will find it and install it for myself.
If you look at OS'es you can buy, you will see the exactly same thing there...... a problem...wait wait wait... a patch!!
The difference, you did pay for a system that has problems, but you most probably didn't pay for Gentoo. These guys work mostly for free; so stop whining!

Again.... A big THANKS to Gentoo-developers!! You are doing a great-great-great job!!

mabhobs · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 83

A very big thanks from me too. The gentoo on my ibook is working like I want it too, but I could have never done this without everybody involved in the gentoo community. Thank you very, very much!!

gentoo_dude · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject:

Well said.

mark_alec · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

Merged above three posts into here.
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cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

nah, they are all fucking useless :p
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SLBMEH · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject:

I just realized... I've been a faithful user for four years now. I use gentoo on every server and workstation I own. I use gentoo when I teach new Linux users. And I never even took the time to say thanks...

THANK YOU GENTOO DEV TEAM!!!
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cmu_xj · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: Thank You!!

I just wanted to say that I am deeply grateful to all in this community. I can not express my gratitude enough. Gentoo has been my main desktop for over 5 years. I have completed a Masters thesis and am now in the middle of a PhD and I am thrilled with its stability and ability to do all that I want and more.

My knowledge of is only a spot in the sand when compared to most but the system has proven to be very reliable and easy to use. When I run into trouble it usually only takes me 10-15 minutes max to jump over here and find the answer. The feeling of completely satisfying.

In truth I rarely contribute anything to the community because I simply do not know enough to provide meaningful input. For this reason I want to give a big THANK YOU!!! to the many who put thousands of hours into developing and maintaining an incredible system.

Steve

mark_alec · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject:

Merged above.

Frapazoid · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 18

I love Gentoo!

Portage may be buggy enough that I wonder if it was put together by monkeys but frankly I'm amazed this whole thing works at all. I just got Gnome running on my SGI Octane and I have NEVER seen Gnome load that fast in my life. I have a Fedora Core on a newer Athlon and it draaags ass.

Gentoo saved me enourmous abouts of trouble and has well written documentation that explained exactly how to netboot my Octane, provided special boot images with all the needed patches, and provides a MIPS compiler so I can get everything installed on this weird, funky system.

Thank you all!
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sonicbhoc · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

The greatest thing about linux is choice, and this distro gives me more choices then i could ever hope for! (or use, for that matter. my computer sucks.)

I'm sure you've heard it before, but the documentation kicks ass. As does portage, and the relative ease-of-use after the system is up. (if you don't tinker with everything, like I do)

Still haven't found a reason (other than time management) to leave gentoo. Now all we need is some more games!

Keep developing Gentoo, you guys are doing a great job, and I don't know what I'd do if Gentoo died...

El_UnO · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

What can I say? Gentoo is the best..

Gentoo is all about choice and learning, install Gentoo and you'll know how to fix problems because YOU configured it. Let the distro do it for you and you'll be clueless

So a big "Thank you" goes to all the developer's team who put their hard work on making this great distro

obsrv · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

This distro is really nice. I LOVE it. Thank you

really thank you

tsunam · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343

As there's been a lack of developer response. I figure I'll chip in.

Thank you to everyone who has said thank you to the developers who volunteer. Its the people in this thread that we do this for.

So basically, thanks for the thanks <--that just sounded lame...I'm going to go back to hiding now.
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nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

I also want to thank the devs.

Been using gentoo on my laptop for 2.5 years and on my desktop box for 2 years. I am really glad for being able go all the way from something like "2.4.22 + KDE 3.1.4" to "2.6.15 + KDE 3.4.5" without really important problems.

knitecrawler · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 15

Hola,

After been working on windows for quite along time and always wanted to try linux, two months back I decided to shift to Linux, looking on various distro and my little experience with nix I was sure I would never try red hat or Suse. and 14 debian cds didn't made sense to me.

After consulting various freinds I was told that gentoo is really tough to work on and its only for leet people who have nothing to do other then sit on computer, so I decided to install kubuntu as its most user freindly.

Past week It just came to my mind that I need to try gentoo. and after looking into live cd I was sure that I need to try it.
And after going through the process I was really disapointed as everything worked for the first time..

I really loved the installation method just set up all the options start installation and you dont need to intervene anymore. After reading related docs it just took me 15-20 mins to setup my install profile (excluding 3hours ispent to figure out that I need to configure net before starting installation

)
and I went to sleep to find in morning that gentoo is up and running.

Next thing I was worried about was configuring the sound, and after looking through forum Irealized that I need to recompile Kernel. was a bit scared but with genkernal it was such an ease. I didnt know that complingkernel is this simple.

Next thing I did was install KDE and after browsing a bit I realized but MASK thing which I need to install KDE 3.5.2 and after reading a bit it was simple too.

and comparitive to kubuntu things run lot faster. a lil bit of extra time in installation is definately worth it.

I am really disapointed why I didnt tried Gentoo earlier :lol:

mark_alec · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

Glad you are enjoying using Gentoo

SirYes · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: Re: Really Disapointed by gentoo

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knitecrawler · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 15

First thing I did was taking out printout of document in a nice book format (including text installation method :lol:

) and try to read it before installing.
Then there was great deal of documentation and gentoo-wiki helped me to do rest of stuff pretty easily..

To Siryes: I used live cd but i used Dialog based installer , I also tried graphical based installer Itjust simplifies the job. Maybe next time if I need to install I will use minimum install

Syntaxis Thanks for the enlightment

SirYes · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject:

deoren · Apprentice Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 227 Location: USA

Just a quick post to say "THANKS!" for the Gentoo experience!

I was just using packages.gentoo.org and once again reminded of the excellent documenation you guys have.

mark_alec · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:10 pm Post subject:

Merged above.

nickless · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 26

Gentoo is the distro that converted me to linux user:-)

So I want to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH for developing this amaizing distro and for portage and for the great docu and for this forum and for the best community andandand...

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