I just wanted to say... I love Gentoo!

loony · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 199

Hello,

I just wanted to say that I love Gentoo! I tried a lot distros in the past, I even switched from Gentoo to another distro but came back quick. These are the reasons (though you will already know this):

You learn a lot about your system!
You have everything under full control, nothing gets installed that you don't want!
It's fast!
Once set up, administration is hassle-free and fun!
It just works!
No more RPM searches, no yum-hassles, no apt-get errors!
Gentoo has the best support forum!
Daily work without surprises!
It's fun!

loony
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loony · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 199

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avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

Good call. The only thing I knew about linux was that it was free, then I installed Gentoo.

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pbardet · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject:

tabanus · l33t Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 638 Location: UK

Just my opinion, but Gentoo is a lot easier to maintain than any other OS.

I updated my daughter's PC when she was away on a school trip (she won't let me near it otherwise :wink:

). It hadn't had any updates in about 10 months. Practically every package needed updating, switch to udev, new kernel, KDE, nvidia driver updates, all sorts of fun things. It did take a few days to work around some of the conflicts, but more because I was taking things slowly trying not to screw anything up. At the end, I (she) had a fully up to date system.

It certainly wasn't as easy as emerge -uD world, but no great trial either. I find if you have a lot of packages to update, then doing a few at a time helps.

emerge -u world followed by -uDp world and emerging each dependency individually and looking for the messages that come at the end of the emerge helps to stop things breaking.

I've had more difficulty using Windows update in the past, and that's only for the core OS. I have no clue how many outdated programs we have on the Windows PCs at work, and have no way of finding out, other than manually trawling websites, and then you often have to pay for the update.

Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

Everything breaks. The good thing about Gentoo (and Linux in general, really) isn't that it never breaks, but that when it breaks you have the ability to fix it. Gentoo is usually good at this.
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loki99 · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject:

Thing is, when you do not update for a longer period of time, chances are that some major change has taken place in at least one package one tries to update. So it really helps to skim through the GWN of those months to avoid running into troubles.

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pbardet · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject:

Well, it's finally done. I regenerated a new kernel with gcc3.4.5 and rebooted the box.
It' s "weird" , but everything feels quite faster. My lirc works again properly, when I could not get it to work anymore.
I have to say that even if it was a big pain, that emerge -e world was the best thing I could do.
But hey, that's one of the reasons I'm sticking to Gentoo.

Keiko · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 98

Hia,

I first tried linux around 3, maybe 4 years ago, i've known of it for sometime, but never took the pluge. At the time for some reason now unknown to me, i didn't download it for free, but purchased the Suse 8.2 Pro box set. I enjoyed the new experience, but overall it was a disapointment, the menu system was ackward and complex, i got lost easilly, and being a 'user friendly setup' i wasn't sure of another better way to run my syste. Added to that nightmare, my sound, modem and network cards didn't work, and hat the time i lacked the knowledge to understand why, so i drifted away and eventually uninstalled. It was only really on my hard drive for the sake of being there, it wasn't used, nor could i use it for anything that i couldn't do better or faster with a windows version.

Since then i've hovered back and forth with my system, i've tried Solaris, varios other linux distros, including knoppix and FC3, but i still had the same problems, and only minor improovements was noticed by me...

Then in December last year, i tried Gentoo, it took me over 3 weeks to install, due to countless screw ups over misunderstanding the manual, or missing steps out of laziness, but eventually it was running, and i havn't looked back. Gentoo gives me everything i want, as a linux distro i think its unbeatable, although i admit to saying that with only limited experience. My only real moan as been related to emerging openoffice2 from source, but i'm now aware of openoffice-bin, that installes in around 30 mins.

In short, i'm in love with Gentoo.

Thanks to the Gentoo developers and community, for making my PC a pleasure to use again.

Keiko.