[gentoo-dev] Slightly off-topic, just need to say this

[gentoo-dev] Slightly off-topic, just need to say this

[Thomas Horsten]

I installed Gentoo yesterday and I must say I had the best experience since I 
installed my very first Slackware about 10 years ago.

What an amazingly cool distribution and what a great job you guys have done :)

The Live CD rocks, installation is like "You get to do it yourself but we give 
you all the tools you need so it doesn't get boring or annoying". After a few 
hours my system was up and running, just following the instructions on 
/install.txt - this is not for newbies but wow is it good if you know what 
you're doing.

You manage to keep everything nice and simple as well, so you don't need an 
SQL server for your init scripts etc. (Ok that's an exaggeration :-)

I will definitely try to help with this great project.

Thanks for an amazing piece of software!

// Thomas

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly off-topic, just need to say this

[Norberto BENSA]

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> I installed Gentoo yesterday and I must say I had the best experience since
> I installed my very first Slackware about 10 years ago.
>
> What an amazingly cool distribution and what a great job you guys have done
> :)
>

More or less the same feeling we all have. Gentoo is simply the best distro 
I've tried (Debian, RH.) It breaks sometimes with ~x86, but I can rollback 
very easy. I know exactly where the different config files are, etc., etc...

Gentoo is so good that I have deleted Windows from all my systems except one 
(because of my modem.) But when I get ADSL or cablemodem, I'll delete Windows 
from that box too :-D

Best regards,
Norberto

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly off-topic, just need to say this

[Sven Blumenstein]

On Tue, 6 May 2003 20:29:26 +0100
Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com> wrote:

> 
> What an amazingly cool distribution and what a great job you guys
> have done :)
> 

I fully agree. Had the same feelings as you when I first tried Gentoo. And I tried almost every major Linux distro before (Progeny Debian, Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE [eek!]) but always felt back to Windows :/ 

When I first installed, I was positive suprised that I can start off such a minimal system and install only the tools I really want (_one_ texteditor, _one_ windowmanager etc.).

Gentoo includes is the perfect mix of easy software installation, clean system structure, geek-factor (self compiled software) and speed (see geek-factor) :)

Keep up the great work!

Sven

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RE: [gentoo-dev] Slightly off-topic, just need to say this

[Riyad Kalla]

Couldn't agree more

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From: Sven Blumenstein [mailto:me@0x1337.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 1:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly off-topic, just need to say this


On Tue, 6 May 2003 20:29:26 +0100
Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com> wrote:

> 
> What an amazingly cool distribution and what a great job you guys have

> done :)
> 

I fully agree. Had the same feelings as you when I first tried Gentoo.
And I tried almost every major Linux distro before (Progeny Debian,
Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE [eek!]) but always felt back to Windows :/ 

When I first installed, I was positive suprised that I can start off
such a minimal system and install only the tools I really want (_one_
texteditor, _one_ windowmanager etc.).

Gentoo includes is the perfect mix of easy software installation, clean
system structure, geek-factor (self compiled software) and speed (see
geek-factor) :)

Keep up the great work!

Sven

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