On Tuesday 30 December 2003 03:21 am, Cybercar wrote: > First 4 years ago y tried Mandrake, then I beeing using Debian > with the great apt , but before I didn't taste gentoo I don't > really know the performance which it gives me. > Before I haven't compiled all the system in gentoo i never been > so happy than now :) > Gentoo & emerge PoWa!! > > Thanks all of you to make this grow day by day.
Yeah, I started with Mandrake 7.2. Well, actually I installed several distros for about a year, little less, before that, but always went on back to windows. But mandrake was easy enough for a tickerer like me, even tho that was still 2.2 kernel and not much was autodetected. I'm glad I stayed when I did cuz mandrake started doing everything for the user starting at about 8.2 or so. On a fresh install now, the user has to configure very little. But I'm a commandline junkie. I never used mandrakes utilities to configure stuff past the install, mainly cuz they didn't work when I started using it, <teehee>, and I use bash for my filemanager, that kinda thing. So, I am sorta a little accomplished. Not guru, but comfortable with any linux distro except debian (didn't like it much). I tried about every other major distro out there, but mandrake (cooker to be more precise) was my main os. I loved it dearly. Until this year. Thing started changing. But it was still my main os and I still liked it. But then one weekend in mid-November my suse ftp install failed. So, I don't know, I think someone mentioned gentoo on http://www.pclinuxonline.com I tried debian too right before, but on someone recommendation I thought I"d try gentoo. Oh, I remember better now, in addition, it came with my october or november linux format magazine dvd. My last issue cuz my subscription ran out. How that for luck? If it had run out a month earlier, or they had included it a month later, I'd still be growing more dissatified with mandrake. (which is another long story I spare yaw of). Now I tried LFS and sorceror before and got tired of messing with them before I got them on. But I started gentoos install from stage 1 cuz that's what was on that linux format dvd. I had hoped it would be complete with the packages, but ended up downloading them. But anyway I tried to read the docs on the site before I started and got the blahs. See, I'm one of those rtfm if I /have/ too kinda people. But I wanted to do this right, so I tried to read the docs first. But said fsck it and booted the cd thinking there might be an installer or soemthign. But instead were some directions for installing gentoo. I followed them and had to change some stuff cuz either the procedure had changed or my disk was different. I didn't know enough about what I was doing to remember now. But I just bascially followed the directions on the cd and it took 3 days before I could boot. Then it took another couple or three days before I could start x. But it was easy. It booted right up the first try and x started the first time. That's how it's been for me. I had a few problems at first, user error mostly, like I couldn't get the timezone right. Turned out to be I hadn't build rtc in the kernel. :P Couldn't su to root cuz I wasn't in wheel group. OO.org wouldn't build cuz there wasn't enough room on that partition. But overall it's been painless. And if I want to install soemthing it builds, install and works. Even if it's a tarball I've downloaded. Portage has failed on just a couple packages, openmotiff I think was one, but can't remember the other one or two. Nothing too important to me. My sensors worked and my xawtv and volume plugin. Most important to me, that I can't get to work in slackware. And the startup process and loading modules stuff was a little different in gentoo but not to hard to figure out. I use dsl through a router most of the time, but occasionally need to dial up. No go with slackware, pppd dies. I used to love slackware in it's 8.x days, but since it went 9.x I can't get it to do shit. But kppp dials up from gentoo with no problems. Everything works. Mplayer for those asf and wma files. cdrecord for burning, well not really surprized there. But everything works except posting to the gentoo newsgroup. :P (which I could use some help there!) Been reading this list since mid november and the newsgroup since about then. The community is real nice which is something I was afraid I'm miss from mandrake. I posted about one problem and had several list suggestions how to overcome it right away. I really enjoy the forum, where I jump in and show my ignorance too often. Nice folks, great off-topics. :) All that to say I love gentoo too, cuz it works. :D Sorry it got so long. :D But just got some good news about a friend and am all wound up besides loving to tell the story of how gentoo stole my heart away from my long time love mandrake. I've heard it stole another once die-hard mandrake user too. Yama from http://www.pclinuxonline.com He used to be quite active on the mandrake mailing list. I wonder if he subscribes to this gentoo list? The name he used to post on the mandrake mailing lists was Sridhar Dhanapalan. I know he's around somewhere, maybe using a different nick. He was quite the guru and seemed happy to help. Anyone know who I'm talking about? Ok, I'll shut up now. Thanks for being part of gentoo and making me feel welcome. Thanks if you actually read this. I don't usually read long posts myself, so I appreciate it if you read my story. :) Have a nice day. Oh, and Happy New Year. Tomorrow's my birthday. :P thanks, -susan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
