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zbindere
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:32 pm    Post subject: It is right to give them thanks & praise (Gentoo devs, e Reply with quote

I think it is time to say thank you for that great distribution. I am using Linux since almost 5 years. I was never really
happy with a disribution and I never used one more than half a year. Now I can say I am using gentoo more than a year and
I am still happy with it.

I think developers get a lot of the following feedback:
    could you include that package....
    could you fix that bug....
    help me install that....
    your &%�*& does not work
    i want that feature....
    etc...


So this time I want to thank all people developing gentoo.

THANK YOU

mod edit: Converted the topic to lowercase.
amne

changed title from "Thank you Gentoo developers" as a few threads have been merged into this one.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll double that ;-).

Thank you all!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice one zbindere :D

I'm sure they will appreciate that. There is far too much complaining and not enough thank yous...
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

muchas gracious developers

thanks a lot of devs for making gentoo the best meta-distro linux has ever seen
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, as a satisfied user for now 1.5 years, I have to thank you all!!!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Indeed, Great Job, love ya all :)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All I have to say is that I'm also very thankful.

I prefer Gentoo over all other distributions I've tested (so far: Slackware, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSe and DamnSmallLinux (is that even to be considered an OS?).)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Signed ;)

We may not express is often enough at times but thanks...without you, I'd still be in rpm dependancy hell (and trust me...it wasn't pretty >.<)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gentoo has made me a happy computer user. i no longer need to use windows for anything at home! Thanks much!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for making this THE distro with 1001 installation methods! :-P

Btw, I've linked to here from my sig... let's have more people express their gratitude! :-D
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks GENTOOOOOOOO :)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dankeschoen! ich sag daaankeschoen.........
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just wanted to say "Thank you" too!

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll DEFINATELY add myself to this one....I was a dualboot user for a long time....WinXP and Mandrake (hell I remember buying 7.0 ). My kids used the games on the linux side and I played windows games and did a lot of work on the windows side. I finally just got tired of mandrake and switched to windows full time. Took me about 6 months of spyware, adware, viruses, crashes, and just plain non-productivity to get fed up with it. I heard good things about Gentoo from my 3d forums (elysiun.com...yeah I'm a Blenderhead) , and decided to try it. Took me a week to install because I screwed up something (read read read the documentation....then read it again). I finally had to reinstall and took notes step by step. Now I find that all my programs run faster on Gentoo (Blender is just blazing now), I've got a more stable system (I laugh at my girlfriend every time Windows crashes or does something stupid ..."I just opened a webpage...why does it want to install a new printer????"), and I'm able to tweak anything on my system...which i LOVE.

But the best of all....portage. I got tired of linux because it took so much to manage packages....rpm's are a pain in the neck. Once I started working with portage, its like magic. I tell my girlfriend I love portage at least once a week, and I tell her I love linux at least every day (and I make sure to tell her I love her more when I say that). I make fun of her whenever I have to install something on her system because she can't figure it out....I keep telling her to type emerge and the program name (then usually duck to avoid something being thrown my way). I love portage, love the documentation, love love love the forums. Gentoo is the best thing since fermented bread.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks a lot for such a strong & powerful Distro.
I am amazed with the gr8 Documention.
thanks a lot for gr8 distro.

I am very happy to bye bye to RPM & windows forever.:lol:
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for an excellent distro with a great community and excellent documentation!

*HUG* <3 (^_^)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes!

:D

Thank you. I'm a Gentoo user for about one year now. In the meantime all linux boxes (servers & desktops) of my company were changed to Gentoo (from Red Hat/Fedora).

I have a long way behind: From Mandrake to LinuxFromScratch, after that Red Hat and finally the best distro ever: Gentoo.

High performance of the boxes, best scalability (Red Hat users don't know much about CFLAGS), very good docs and great forum support.

A big THANK YOU for all your work and sleepless nights.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just post, to say.... THANK YOU!! 8)

This distro was what make me look at linux in another way so that I started to like it.
Before gentoo I looked at linux (in the university) and just use because I had to, not for the fun as now :D
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you can support gentoo linux by donating

http://store.gentoo.org/
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello!

I want to say "thank you" too! I used Windows and SuSE before gentoo.
You have opened my eyes! And yes I'm proud to say:" I LOVE GENTOO".

P.S.: Dziekuje wam! Kocham gentoo! :P
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

I have to agree - big w00t to the Gentoo developers!!!

Ben (pround user of Gentoo for 4 years)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice indeed..

I´ve been a full "hard-disk" linux user from about 1 year, and a gentoo user for 6 months...and after tested almost all the other distros, It feels nice to say: "This is MY distro"; I just dont see any reason why to change it..

Also on this 6 lovely months :D I´ve turned 3 windows and 1 debian user to gentoo. It´s just that portage probably is one of the best piece of software ever.... I tried to install to my friends Mandrake, because it was "the more user-friendly and easy to use"... NAH.. It could be easy to setup and use.... and that lasts for about a couple of months, then the distro comes old and new programs are required... Then the nightmare begins (you know what I mean, finding packages, finding dependencies, install, blah blah blah). It´s a pain in the ass for us Linux-savys :D Imagine how it feel for Linux-legos

LONG LIVE "EMERGE LIFE" :P

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P.D.: Thanks!!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

float- wrote:
you can support gentoo linux by donating

http://store.gentoo.org/


I second that and say thank you myself :-D

Every so often I spin up SuSE or Debian, but shudder quickly back to Gentoo

Nothing to touch it, thats for sure.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vielen Dank!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gentoo is by far one of the better distributions out there. Thanks Developers!:D
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