On Saturday 09 September 2006 02:33, John J. Foster wrote:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Colleen Beamer
wrote:
I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not
the average
Well, I *couldn't* be a grandmother, because I am a
grandfather who has pretty much no clue
Responding to all, sorry
[user]
control
compiler optimizations (I run on P4 Xeon)
it was the first distro I found whose kernels didn't mess up the
Xeon CPU throttling stuff and
randomly start running at 10% speed
glutton for pain (I hate worrying about all those ewarns and config
files
[user]
Portage
Handbook, it dragged me out of the dull and darkness that I was living in
and because... it works!! 99% of the times it didn't work was because of me.
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On Saturday 09 September 2006 07:49, Rodrigo Lazo wrote:
[user]
Portage
Handbook, it dragged me out of the dull and darkness that I was living in
and because... it works!! 99% of the times it didn't work was because of
me.
Okay I've taken the bait. This is the same reason I love Gentoo. The
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're
an
actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be
fancy,
you
can put community or something if that's all you want. All
responses
off
list please. Thanks.
[Timothy A. Holmes]
[user]
I reply
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:40 -0400, Statux wrote:
[snip]
All responses off list please. Thanks.
[snip]
Just pointing that one out as 2 people have missed it already :)
what about everyone else who might be interested in the answer?
[user]
Portage
Streamlined installation -- U nstall what U want, exactly what U want
...
Did I mention Portage :).
ShawnOn 9/8/06, Mikko Ruuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:40 -0400, Statux wrote: [snip]All responses off list
[Rafael Barrera Oro] [User]
I entered the Linux world using SUSE, in time, it began to have
humongous circular dependencies problems which drove me crazy. When i
discover Gentoo, i found the portage system to be just what i was
waiting for, an outstanding feature.
Also:
Love the G that
User
I was attracted to Gentoo because it was different, and I'm attracted to
things like that.
Coming from a background of Slackware and Redhat, I fell in love with the ease
of portage
But I strongly believe one of the biggest strengths of Gentoo is this list. I
have learned more from reading
[user]I use and stay with Gentoo because it is the distro that I started with. I was used to windows before I used Gentoo, let alone linux. Once I got out of the windows way of thinking, then Gentoo and linux just kind of feel a bit natural. I've stayed with Gentoo because I haven't seen a good
BTW, if you want to share your responses on-list, great, but you might
want to be sure to CC Chris as well, as he requested responses
off-list, indicating he may not read -user.
-Richard
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Chris White wrote:
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an
actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you
can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses off
list please. Thanks.
[user]
I'm not, but I
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote:
I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not the average
Well, I *couldn't* be a grandmother, because I am a grandfather who has
pretty much no clue what average is.
festus
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In all the millions of years
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From: Colleen Beamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 4:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo
Chris White wrote:
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something
darren kirby wrote:
I do not see a problem if folks post here as long as they understand they
should CC the OP if they want their responses considered for whatever it is
the OP is doing...which I might add, would be nice to know.
I don't want to sound unpolite, but the OP could more easily
quoth the b.n.:
darren kirby wrote:
I do not see a problem if folks post here as long as they understand they
should CC the OP if they want their responses considered for whatever it
is the OP is doing...which I might add, would be nice to know.
I don't want to sound unpolite, but the OP
darren kirby wrote:
quoth the Dale:
Plus some of us like to read them. ;-)
Really...
I do not see a problem if folks post here as long as they understand they
should CC the OP if they want their responses considered for whatever it is
the OP is doing...which I might add, would
[user]
source-based
control
documentaion
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In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of
them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz
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On Thursday 07 September 2006 17:31, Chris White wrote:
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if
you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't
need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all
you want. All responses off list please.
[snip]
All responses off list please. Thanks.
[snip]
Just pointing that one out as 2 people have missed it already :)
-Statux
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On Thursday 07 September 2006 19:31, Chris White wrote:
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an
actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy,
you can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses
off list please.
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:40 -0400, Statux wrote:
[snip]
All responses off list please. Thanks.
[snip]
Just pointing that one out as 2 people have missed it already :)
what about everyone else who might be interested in the answer?
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