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October 11th, 2005, 12:12 AM
#11
Natural selection at its best.
I couldn't agree more.
That time spent on esoteric installation processes was time you didn't spend mating.
cheers,
catch
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October 11th, 2005, 12:32 AM
#12
Originally posted here by catch
I couldn't agree more.
That time spent on esoteric installation processes was time you didn't spend mating.
cheers,
catch
Carefull catch, you'll end up being called Childish because you and me see no reason for installs to take 3 days and then another 5 catching up with the security holes.
"Not now I'm compiling KDE!"
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October 11th, 2005, 01:32 AM
#13
Meh... I use Windows with pre-defined configuration templates...
If I haven't been called childish yet, it's never gonna happen.
cheers,
catch
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October 11th, 2005, 05:32 AM
#14
you'll end up being called Childish because you and me see no reason for installs to take 3 days and then another 5 catching up with the security holes.
That's why I never "upgraded" to XP. I figure if God wanted me to use XP
he would have given me a new pc with it already installed. What's wrong
with 98 anyway? Right now I'm on a box that I got for free for doing some
repairs on a co-worker's computer. It (this box) had no hard drive, but I
found a used one laying in the corner. I popped the drive in and booted SLAX.
It took about ten minutes to fdisk, format and install the OS to disk.
EVERYTHING WORKS!, The DVD player, the cd burner,
I can play Freecell! I am on line. What else could you ask for?
I came in to the world with nothing. I still have most of it.
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October 11th, 2005, 09:17 AM
#15
It appears that a bunch of people are considering a career change into proctology given the depth of analysis [sic] that got involved at times in this thread.
Moving on, then...
/  \\
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November 27th, 2005, 12:21 PM
#16
I'm bringing up a slightly old topic (I've been away for a while, blame me for using the search function) because I'm an old-time slacker that has given gentoo quite a few shots as well.
Just my insight that I'd like to offer future gentoo users that end up finding this result from a search:
You are not learning how Linux works so much as you are learning how Gentoo works.
There are Linux principles that create the foundation of each and every Linux distribution and of course each distro will have their own tweaks and quirks. But never have I seen a distro go so far out of it's way as to be an obscure (yet fun for some) form of Linux education. CFLAGs and similar are strictly Gentoo-philosophy based where as depedency checking based upon file versions (apt-get, swaret) can spread across multiple linux distributions. I enjoyed gentoo, but I didn't learn Linux from the Stage 1 to Desktop process... I learned Gentoo.
\"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.\"
- Charles Darwin
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November 27th, 2005, 12:46 PM
#17
The reason you don't learn Linux by using Gentoo is quite simple. Emerge is only in Gentoo. The install.... Well unless you only use ROCK Linux, you're not going to learn it just from using it. The reason is Linux is very varied. No two distros are exactly alike.
When one learns RedHat, one learns pay a high price.
When one learns Mandrake one learns everything isn't working
When one learns SUSE one learns how useability doesn't have to be taken away for security
when one learns Debin one learns that it's possible to have out dated software on a new machine
When one learns Slackware, one learns how to make Linux useable for all distros...
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November 27th, 2005, 02:15 PM
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