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Managing Gentoo - a study in quotes

Posted Aug 31, 2006 14:26 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
Parent article: Managing Gentoo - a study in quotes

I hope there are some Gentoo developers reading this. Despite any
organizational inefficiencies you may face; despite the issues I
sometimes face when I decide to upgrade my system and something breaks, I
still maintain that Gentoo Linux is the best desktop operating system
I've ever seen.

I started out as a Slackware user, moved to Red Hat, then Mandrake, then
back to Slackware. I could never find a system I liked. Red Hat and
Mandrake tied your hands while Slackware offered too little. Gentoo was
the perfect balance, giving you as much or as little control as you
wanted, while giving you the ability to cook your own fast, custom
system. And even better, up to date packages are made available quickly.

Bravo to all the hard work. Bravo.

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Managing Gentoo - a study in quotes

Posted Aug 31, 2006 15:21 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link]

Thanks for your appreciation. What you say speaks to where we are now, which is quite an accomplishment. But the questions I want to answer are, "Where are we going?" and "How do we get there?" Gentoo has been a distribution of innovation in the past, and I don't want that to stagnate into simply bumping package versions.

Managing Gentoo - a study in quotes

Posted Aug 31, 2006 16:09 UTC (Thu) by StuHerbert (subscriber, #15663) [Link]

Thank you for your appreciation. We're also excellent on servers too.</advert :)>

Best regards,
Stu

Managing Gentoo - a study in quotes

Posted Aug 31, 2006 18:53 UTC (Thu) by fkrogh (guest, #4493) [Link]

Let me second this. I'm running Gentoo unstable on a dual Opteron system as both a work station and a lightly used server. I find the community very reponsive and helpful. My minimal help is to report bugs and to report how I have fixed certain problems. I've only been a user for about 2 years, but am much happier with it that I was with RedHat (as it was then).
Fred