What version of Gentoo was your 1st?

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cokey · Post by **cokey** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:46 pm

I used 1.4 for a while then went back to Mandrake then used it constantly from 2004.0 to 2006.0. I never used to update my profiles so when it came to 2004.3 i had to get ciaranm to help me upgrade...

Sorry about the lack of 1.0 and others but i was limited to the amount of poll options. I tried to add in the best ones possible

Nicom · Post by **Nicom** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:54 pm

The first version I stuck with was 1.4, but I've tried earlier ones, notably 1.2.

sugar · Post by **sugar** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:58 pm

so, cokehabit, did you do anything special for your 'forum birthday', ie, to celebrate the day thats under your avatar? you're 3 months older than me, and it sure shows...

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:07 pm

sugar wrote:so, cokehabit, did you do anything special for your 'forum birthday', ie, to celebrate the day thats under your avatar? you're 3 months older than me, and it sure shows...

nope, my 2nd birthday was quiet

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:10 pm

My first gentoo was 1.4. I had been going from one distro to another for years, since Redhat 5.0. When I installed gentoo 1.4, I knew it would be the last. And it was. I haven't installed another distribution since then.

zeky · Post by **zeky** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:13 pm

what a stupid topic

Nicom · Post by **Nicom** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:40 pm

zeky wrote:what a stupid topic

I agree, it's missing provocative and wity sexual innuendo, bad cokehabit

playfool · Post by **playfool** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:41 pm

Pre 1.0

bunder · Post by **bunder** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:42 pm

where's the version history list? i think i started using it in v1.4.

freelight · Post by **freelight** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:58 pm

Started with 1.4, which ended my marriage to Slackware. Gentoo and I have been happy together ever since, and though I've had a few indiscretions with other distros, I always came back to the one I love.

loki99 · Post by **loki99** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:58 pm

I tried 1.2 but didn't manage the install.

The second try was with 1.4 and I never looked back ever since; so thats what I voted for.

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:33 am

2004.0 was my first; and the 2005.1 profile was my last with Gentoo.

srlinuxx · Post by **srlinuxx** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:40 am

bunder wrote:where's the version history list? i think i started using it in v1.4.

Yeah, need that. I'm thinking version 1.4 as well. Whatever was stable the fall of 2003 - right before my first post here!

/dev/random · Post by **/dev/random** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:36 am

It was 2004.1, but I stupidly clicked 2004.0 on accident. I've stuck with it ever since.

sugar · Post by **sugar** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:01 am

What was so great about 1.4 that lot of people decided to change to it? Or did it coincide with mandrake sucking or something like that?

bunder · Post by **bunder** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:02 am

sugar wrote:What was so great about 1.4 that lot of people decided to change to it? Or did it coincide with mandrake sucking or something like that?

i got tired of slackware having a shitty package management system.

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:23 am

2004.2

bunder · Post by **bunder** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:47 am

Code: Select all

    * 1.0, 2002 March 31
    * 1.2, 2002 June
    * 1.4 August 5, 2003 (GRP introduced)
    * 1.4 maintenance release 1 September 11, 2003
    * 2004.0 March 1, 2004 (versioning changed to four releases a year)
    * 2004.1 April 28, 2004
    * 2004.2 July 26, 2004
    * 2004.3 November 15, 2004
    * 2005.0 March 27, 2005 (versioning changed to semi-annual releases)
    * 2005.1 August 8, 2005
    * 2005.1 maintenance release 1 November 21, 2005
    * 2006.0 February 27, 2006

i still think i started with 1.4

broken_chaos · Post by **broken_chaos** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:58 am

2005.1 back in late September 2005. 2006.0 now. =)

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:49 am

I started with 2004.1

I used it for about a week before I dropped it for Windows because I broke it badly, I didn't RTFM well enough.

Before that, I used Mandrake and a couple other distros for short periods of time. I finally got back into gentoo after a while though, and Don't break it as often

When I do, I have tbz2 packages that I burn to DVD every month though to restore my system after I fuck it up too bad to fix without a new install.

yabbadabbadont · Post by **yabbadabbadont** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:55 am

1.2 for me. Back then I only had dial-up and the wvdial on the cd was borked. (pppd would die after the modem connected) I had to do a wierd combination of calling pppd directly to dial the modem, but then had it call wvdial just to negotiate the login. I also hacked the bootstrap.sh script to do a fetchonly of all the downloads since that wasn't an option of the script at that time. That was a lot of fun, downloading all the required packages at ~4 to ~6 Kb a second. Oy. These days I have a 6mb DSL connection, and I'm feeling *much* better now.

freelight · Post by **freelight** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:02 am

sugar wrote:What was so great about 1.4 that lot of people decided to change to it? Or did it coincide with mandrake sucking or something like that?

I bought into all the Gentoo hype I was hearing. I was reluctant to leave my Slackware, but my curiousity got the best of me. If I remember correctly, this was the peak of Gentoo hype, with people praising it for being fast and customizable and optimizable and overall the computing equivalent of the second coming of Jesus. This was before there was Ubuntu or Fedora, when all the "n00b" distros sucked, and when Debian was suffering a mass exodus due to the fact that their community was excessively elitist and Gentoo was a fresh, clean distro with a very friendly, inclusive, and newbie-friendly community. (A lot has changed since then. Anyone who remembers how people swore that we'd never become like the Debian community, feel free to laugh. Anyone who can see the Debian->Gentoo::Gentoo->Ubuntu analogy, feel free to laugh harder, and note the irony of Ubuntu's roots.)
A little history lesson at 3 am. I'm half asleep and I'm sure I've made some errors, feel free to correct me.

JC Denton · Post by **JC Denton** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:44 am

1.2. Gentoo was the craze at my office. I later used 1.4. At some point the Debian beast reclaimed my soul, and I didn't touch Gentoo again until 2005.0

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den_RDC · Post by **den_RDC** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:50 am

1.2 - A pretty long time ago, i'm getting old...
I even know who canislupus was

And the discussions on OTW were much beter ( and did count as posts )
And my new pc just feeled faster back then ...
And life was more beautiful
Gonna stop here before i sound like a war veteran

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:19 am

sugar wrote:What was so great about 1.4 that lot of people decided to change to it? Or did it coincide with mandrake sucking or something like that?

it was when Gentoo started to be taken up by the masses and became a major distro ~12-18 months after it was started