On 16/04/2016 16:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here. > > For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without problems. > I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just works. > > The last bit of excitement I had was in early 2015 when I was trying to > sort out the mess in my xfce4 system after gnome-3 had been made stable. > In the end, I gave up and reinstalled Gentoo, which this time took me > only a week. > > Admittedly, there's very little which is cutting edge on my system - the > box is 6½ years old, it boots with lilo on an old fashioned BIOS, my > filesystems are ext3 (or in one case, ext2) on spinning rust. The only > remotely adventurous things I've got are RAID-1 (via the kernel) and > lvm2. > > So a big thanks to all the developers who've brought about this happy > state of affairs! >
Awesome name you got there fella :-) My Gentoo experience is much the same as yours although we live and work in very different worlds. My stuff seems to JustWork(tm) almost always even though I use ~arch everywhere except one 10-year old desktop (it's old and slow so I keep it on arch to minimize emerge times). I've only once had a problem I couldn't work my way out of, the above-mentioned desktop has an IDE motherboard and the drive slowly got worse without me noticing till one day it packed up. New, drive reinstall. But with an /etc/ backup it was really just a little more work than emerge -e world. So yes, huge kudos to the gentoo devs for giving us these tools to make all of that possible! -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
