z wrote:

On Thursday 18 March 2004 03:23 pm, elfick wrote:


Reginald Reed wrote:


Thanks for the replies.  I saw the posts you mention on the mailing
list.  This will be a good way to help me keep my technical edge in
Linux, even though my Debian specific hacker prowess is what I consider
limited.  Years of Redhat and Mandrake have softened me (which is why I
started playing with Debian and *cringe* Gentoo last yr).

--Reggie


cringe!?!?!???!!!! CRINGE?!! :-P



Yeah, I don't get that either, care to explain why you think that?




No offense to anyone, but I've had nothing but negative experiences with Gentoo. I admit that a lot of it has to do with my patience, but doing any level of "build from source" to get the initial system up and running is loaded with opportunities to screw up. And this is coming from a person that has been hacking Unix one way or another for 15+ yrs.

Anyway, thats just been my experience in the past. Being the distro junkie that I am, I'll likely revisit Gentoo again before the year is out.

--Reggie
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