Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-14 Thread bn
walt ha scritto: Heh. I laughed out loud when I read this link about dselect, especially the quote from Andrew Morton who captured my sentiments exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dselect Oh well but it's kinda obvious that dselect is HELL and no one uses it anymore I think. I thought

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 13 June 2009, AG wrote: Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread walt
AG wrote: Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs. Well, I'm all

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread walt
Alan McKinnon wrote: ...As a Debian user, it is normally safe to assume you can, in fact, read :-) Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager. When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking. Just for fun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread bn
walt ha scritto: Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager. When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking. Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the last few years. They

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread walt
bn wrote: walt ha scritto: Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager. When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking. Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the last few years.

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/14/2009 03:04 AM, walt wrote: Portage is more flexible probably, but apt-get, with an appropriate frontend like Synaptics, is a piece of cake: in 99% of cases is click go. Yes, if gentoo ever disappears (God forbid) I would probably go back to Ubuntu because the Synaptics front end isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:04:57 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: It's me and gentoo til death do us part. And I hope I go first... C'mon, something better might always come along, obsoleting gentoo, like gentoo-ng ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature