Hey Dave! you started on Linux when I did! In 1994 Yggdrasil was one of the only distributions on CDROM. Yggdrasil was what got me started with Linux. When Gentoo came along I was hooked. You compile everything optimized for your architecture!
Jerry Normandin | System Level II Intuit Eclipse Distribution Management Solutions 75 Perseverance Way Hyannis, MA 02601 T 508.778.9151 Ext. 1245 F 508.778.6443 www.eclipse.intuit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ *This e-mail message is intended for the named recipient(s) above only, and may contain information that is confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this e-mail and any attachment(s) thereto is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:16 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Anthony Youngman wrote: > I'm trying to get a working Gentoo at home. That's a game and a half :-) > > When I succeed I'll likely try and create an ebuild to install UVPE. Be > nice to get that officially into portage :-) > > (I want to get a WordPerfect 8 ebuild working, too :-) > > Cheers, > Wol > I recently (within the past month) wiped my gentoo desktop box so I could try (K)ubuntu. (K)ubuntu seems to be a decent enough distribution, but for the life of me I still don't understand its popularity. Their policy on root accounts alone was enough to put me off. The primary reason I prefer Linux to any MS solution is that Linux, for the most part, doesn't make judgement calls about what I want to do with MY computer. (K)ubuntu threw that right out the window with their sudo nonsense. It was a bad decision. I had my reasons for replacing gentoo, among them the lack of a recent install CD. However I just checked www.gentoo.org, and imagine my surprise... there's a 2007.0 install finally available. I guess I'll spend the weekend reinstalling. Yes, you read that correctly: the weekend. I've been a Linux user since 1994 (I still have an ancient Yggdrasil distribution, boot floppy and all). I've tried most of the major players, and landed on gentoo about three years ago. What sold me was the amount of control you have with gentoo. Want to try a bleeding edge app? Preface 'emerge' with 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"' (replace ~x86 with your platform of choice). 'USE' keywords offer very fine granularity over what libraries get used when you install a package. And the gentoo wiki offers some of the best documentation I've seen for ANY computer platform. My email archives fail me right now, and my middle-aged memory has been all but useless for quite some time now (I blame the '70's, but there ya go). Someone in the openqm community had an ebuild going for gentoo. In short (is it too late for that?), good luck with building your gentoo system. If ya got any questions (WordPerfect 8??) feel free to holler at me. -- Dave Walker ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
