What version of Gentoo was your 1st?

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jetblack · Post by **jetblack** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:43 am

cokehabit wrote:wow, jet black! Long time no see!

Hey man - yeah, it's been a while. How's it going? I hope all is well.

Woland · Post by **Woland** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:58 am

den_RDC wrote: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

Eh, you sound like me, except I remeber it was kanuslupus, not Canis lupus, as Linnaeus would have it.

But then again, I preceeded you here by an entire twenty days, that's twenty golden days of sleepless Gentoo hacking, back when Gentoo was Gentoo, and OTW really made those long compile times seem shorter.

I can't say this for certain, but I think demographics of Gentoo have shifted towards the younger crowd, sometime, oh three years ago. Back when enough vociferous loyal converts were haunting Slashdot that nearly any message of Gentoo was almost like a troll. So, a short step between trolling /., and trolling OTW---Gentoo's very own Eternal September

Cokehabit --- Gentoo's Official Eternal September Cabana Boy

valkyrite · Post by **valkyrite** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:08 am

I started with gentoo 1.2. Since, then I am a loyal gentoo user. I have done more than 100 installations of gentoo since then, mostly on my friends and lab computers including a 72 node cluster. My join date should reflect that.

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:27 pm

jetblack wrote:
cokehabit wrote:wow, jet black! Long time no see!
Hey man - yeah, it's been a while. How's it going? I hope all is well.

yeah, bits and pieces are ok. I'm on ubuntu now and i left the forums for a couple of months but i'm back now (someone has to show these crackers how to use a distro

). Glad to hear you're busy

It normally means earning money or good social life, hopefully both!

goofus · Post by **goofus** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:59 pm

2004.3r1
i tried to install it twice and with my third try i got it working. i used suse before but it sucked. it was like windows, too much like windows.
my next OS will be Solaris if the 6/06 release supports my hardware that is.

edit:
cokehabit dont leave us...

Vanquirius · Post by **Vanquirius** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:59 pm

1.0 or something (pre?).

Kenji Miyamoto · Post by **Kenji Miyamoto** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:49 pm

I'm relatively new to this crowd, having started with Gentoo 2005.0. I've done a stage 1 install every time, and recall the java-doc causing huge problems during my first install, but no other issues coming up.

madchaz · Post by **madchaz** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:57 pm

I started about when 1.4 came out.

The funny thing is, even if gentoo was suppositly the hardest install around, it was the first one I ever got working like *I* wanted. It took me 2 or 3 tries to get one that would boot, but then I could get samba working right and everything else I wanted.

I've stuck mostly with it ever since.

The funny part is most of the problems I have had were either my own fault or because gentoo worked too well for it's own good.

I'm going to build myself a pvr when I get the time, but still haven't decided what distro I'll use on it. Maybe gentoo, maybe something else. I shall see

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:10 am

Kenji Miyamoto wrote:I'm relatively new to this crowd, having started with Gentoo 2005.0. I've done a stage 1 install every time,

why?

Kenji Miyamoto wrote:and recall the java-doc causing huge problems during my first install, but no other issues coming up.

java-doc isn't in the install

jetblack · Post by **jetblack** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:37 pm

cokehabit wrote:
jetblack wrote:
cokehabit wrote:wow, jet black! Long time no see!
Hey man - yeah, it's been a while. How's it going? I hope all is well.
yeah, bits and pieces are ok. I'm on ubuntu now and i left the forums for a couple of months but i'm back now (someone has to show these crackers how to use a distro ). Glad to hear you're busy It normally means earning money or good social life, hopefully both!

Good to hear things are mostly well there, too. Ubuntu now? Sounds cool. I used that for a bit myself and liked it, but my terminal case of reinstall syndrome caught up to me. I'm sure it'll be back before too long.

And yeah, definitely a little bit of both for me. For a while there it was earning money and driving 150 miles a day, but now I've gotten rid of the driving part.

runningwithscissors · Post by **runningwithscissors** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:23 am

2005.1

I never signed up to the forums then. The handbook was really detailed and very easy to follow, I never had any problems during installation.
I mainly chose it to familiarise myself with the command line and the general way in which linux systems work.

I stick with gentoo because I fell in love with the coloured by default shell that the live cd boots to. All previous distributions I had used had that drab terminal with the huge white letters.

whoracle · Post by **whoracle** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:06 pm

1.4 here.. Gentoo fell upon me as a saviour when i got stuck in dep. hell in Redhat

I've tried a couple distros since then, but not for long.. Gentoo always come back very quickly

Kensai · Post by **Kensai** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:16 pm

I was doing some investigations on Gentoos' past and I have find it very interesting, there has been progress and losses in the road.

Now I want the poll to answer Which version of Gentoo we all started from. But more important I want you guys to comment on the progress you've experienced since you started out in Gentoo is it impressing? were you expecting it? or are you dissapinted and wanted more out of it?

Here is the comment from an osnews review about Gentoo 1.0:
"Gentoo is so far the big Linux surprise this year. Its 1.0 release took the Linux world by storm and converted a huge number of power users and developers from the well-known Linux distros they were using, to the lightweight Gentoo Linux. While its installation process is not for the faint of heart, it pays back the user with a highly optimized system. As a result, Gentoo is dubbed the 'fastest Linux distro' to date."

And the 1.0 release announcement from distrowatch (2002-04-01): "The 1.0 release features the following nifty new things: Portage 1.8.9 - lots of new features, tweaks and refinements, core system updates, glibc 2.2.5 and new kernel 2.4.19-pre2-ac4-XFS"

I started with 2004.x and I'm impressed with its acceptance and progress and to me is the most Flexible OS I have used.

Chaosite · Post by **Chaosite** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:41 pm

this is a dupe. Too lazy to find the duped thread though.

yabbadabbadont · Post by **yabbadabbadont** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:42 pm

I had the link handy as I just reported this thread as a dupe.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-46 ... ight-.html

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:45 pm

yabbadabbadont wrote:I had the link handy as I just reported this thread as a dupe.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-46 ... ight-.html

Now merged with it.

Kensai · Post by **Kensai** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:50 pm

Thanks very much I was searching for it, and didn't find it, Thanks again.

krolden · Post by **krolden** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:53 pm

2004.1 I think. That or 2004.0.

curtis119 · Post by **curtis119** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:48 pm

cokehabit wrote:
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

Also because 1.4 was the first one that was really stable and had good docs. I was a diehard slackware user and tried 1.2 but it was to rough still. When 1.4 came out I tried it and switched all of my boxes over a few weeks later. I've never looked back.

numerodix · Post by **numerodix** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:05 am

I'm pretty sure it was 1.2, many moons ago. It was around that time I posted on the forum for the first time, so if 1.2 was released sometime before July 2002, then it all adds up.

Zepp · Post by **Zepp** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:41 am

1.4, been using it since.

electrofreak · Post by **electrofreak** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:28 am

I think it was 1.4, but it could have maybe been as early as 1.2. I heard about it from a friend, tried it... didn't get it like many people. Then went back to debian it for a while. Then my friend accidently (haha) ruined my debian partitions (I guess it was partially my fault, too). Then he suggested I tried gentoo again. I installed the latest at the point (not sure when that was either) and since then, I haven't turned back.

So... I think the very first time I used gentoo was probably 1.4, but I can't be 100% sure.

ali3nx · Post by **ali3nx** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:35 am

Quite a few oldtimers around here hehe

aidy · Post by **aidy** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:28 am

codergeek42 wrote:2004.0 was my first; and the 2005.1 profile was my last with Gentoo.

same here
ubuntu for now
*runs for the bad fedora man*

bospaadje · Post by **bospaadje** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:33 am

2005.1 for me.. i started at university and wanted to try out linux. At first i installed Fedora Core 4, but it was very slow on this box, and i didn't know anything about linux then so i didn't have a clue how to install my own apps

. Then, during & after a UNIX introductory course in university, a friend of mine introduced me to gentoo. I devoted two entire days and the rest of the following week to installing it and setting it up, never looked back

. I freed my computer from the windoze partition soon after, haven't missed it

I really like gentoo, haven't really broken my system (yet

) and almost everything just works

What version of Gentoo was your 1st?

What version of Gentoo was your 1st?

With which version of Gentoo you all started?