I get bombed all the time in IRC and called "your one of those gentoo users" and usually kicked and banned just for saying i use gentoo. Doesnt matter to me I dont care what people use as long as it isnt windoze. Do and use what makes you happy as long as it isnt windows!!
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 22:34 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:58:58PM -0500, kashani wrote: > > Grant wrote: > > > > I've only done the discriminating based on other people's non use of > > Gentoo. :-) > > I don't really care what people run, so long as it makes sense for their > environment. I have machines running NeXTstep and GNU/Hurd, but, > obviously, I don't put them in production environments. Same goes with > Gentoo. I use it on personal machines only. > > > Actually mentioning Gentoo was a good way of getting past the "so > > have you ever heard of Linux" conversations I ran into last time I went > > to > > a LUG. I will admit that this particular LUG was populated by some serious > > dyed in the wool longhair-ed hippie types complete with oddball PhD's in > > dead languages. Having had a haircut that month it was apparently > > impossible that I actually already used Linux so I was offered a live > > CD, numerous times, by the same people. It finally stopped when I said: > > > > "Thanks for the Ubuntu disk, but I use Gentoo." > > Ubuntu users have usurped Gentoo users for most pushy and annoying. > That said, it's a very nicely put together release of Debian Unstable, > as are Xandros, Progeny, etc. I would happily start a new user on it, > as opposed to Novelldrake, Fedora, etc. etc. > > For production servers, however, I still stick to things with somewhat > better QA -- NetBSD, Debian Stable. I had been big on FreeBSD, but > FreeBSD 5 is just horrid. > -- > S. Bergeron, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > No, I don't need a gmail invite, thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
