Heh, i'll add my $0.02 worth..
I began using Linux about two years ago when i got sick of windows
crashing every half hour. A couple of the guys in my dorm ran linux,
mostly RedHat, but my roommate ran Slackware. So I started out with
RedHat 7.2 and used that distro until 8.0. When 9.0 came out, they
started doing some weird stuff that i just let annoy me and didnt really
look into. (root (su -) had some wierd limitations unless you actually
logged in as root). Anyhow, by that point, one of the guys in the dorm
had mentioned gentoo, and i wanted to try something a bit more
'hardcore'. I gave it a shot about a year ago, and never looked back.
I'm on my second install only because I royally screwed things up. ('rm
-rf *' as root in /) oops....i was trying to clear off a floppy...*sigh*
How's that for idiot moves ;)
But all that to say, i've enjoyed gentoo very much. My gentoo box
doesn't do anything particularly challenging (general every day use, no
servers except for samba and NFS) but it's stable, and when it does
break, it's generally my fault, and after recompiling a few packages
again (or trying to remember how my fstab looked :-P) she's back on her
feet again.
Thanks =0]
Brendan
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 07:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:50:52 +0100 Cybercar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | That's a really good history, LOL!
> |
> | I love Gentoo !!!!!
> |
> | Sorry if this an off-topic.
>
> Nooo! This is good! It's nice to get some positive feedback for a
> change, much more pleasant than being flamed by various kooks for really
> wierd things that have no relevance :)
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