Goodbye, Gentoo

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Many of the "older" forum denizens may remember me as a long-time user and ex-moderator. I have had to bid a sad adieu to my Gentoo installation after close to 5 years of use to move on to Ubuntu. The main reasons for this change are a lack of time to deal with updates that are sometimes adventurous and want of a bit more automation in terms of dealing with my system. I have always loved the Gentoo concept, wide range of available software and clean package management through emerge. I thank all the developers who toil hard, sometimes thanklessly, to put all the pieces of Gentoo together. Thanks also to everyone in the forums who provided input when I had a question and moderators, especially rac and klieber, for their interaction.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject:

Naan Yaar,

Good luck with your chosen OS. Any OS is a tool to go a job - no more.
Choose the tool that suits you.

You won't be able to stay away ... see you soon.
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mark_alec · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:04 am Post subject:

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Gentoo Chat.
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pjp · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:56 am Post subject:

Good luck. I actually thought you left years ago, as I hadn't perceived you posting any more.
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<3 · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 629

You will be back... they all come back eventually.

baigsabeeh · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:

amne · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:24 am Post subject:

Bye Naan Yaar.
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pjp · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

nico_calais · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject:

The last guy who said he was quitting gentoo in the french forum came back after two weeks. So, see you soon :wink:

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swooshOnLn · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject:

I mean really.... how much REAL extra work does gentoo take? :wink:

You will never be able to let go of Gentoo's superior grip. Portage is like crack to nerds. You cant quit it, trust me. Ive tried.

Ill see YOU in dependency hell
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chrismcdirty · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject:

I've also tried to "quit" Gentoo, as my laptop was showing signs of aging and taking forever to compile some of the more trivial packages. Like you, I moved to Ubuntu. And stayed there for a good month or two, until I wanted a package that wasn't in the base repository. So I added an unofficial repository to /etc/apt/sources.apt (or whatever the filename is), then the dependency hell started. For some reason, even though they were all breezy repositories, a lot of the libraries didn't match up correctly. And soon, I had enough. With Gentoo, it may have taken longer to get what I wanted, but it worked 99% of the time. Plus, this community is second to none.

So, good luck with your new choice. Hope it suits you well.

And see you soon

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swooshOnLn · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject:

I don't like the idea of Ubuntu/Gentoo on the same forum. No offense to anybody, but it seems like that would attract alot of script kiddies (haha), and that the forum would just be slowed down for us Gentoo users :-p

But really, its better to keep the separate, ones source, ones binary.
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swooshOnLn · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject:

haha, or how about to log into Gentoo, you need an Ubuntu account with more than 500 posts, that way we can set up some kind of hierarchy of Linux distro's.
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swooshOnLn · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:58 am Post subject:

yeah but ubuntus so easy, why would you have to stick with a harder distro for 500 post before you can go easy w/ ubuntu?
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