[gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Alan McKinnon]

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Hello Gentoo'ers

After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got fuzzies
but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but eventually
got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the new laptop
from work.

Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names like
Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.

For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19 years
ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and general
know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make your
acquaintance.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Alan.

Welcome back!

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 20:15:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>    Hello Gentoo'ers
>    After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
>    fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
>    eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
>    the new laptop from work.
>    Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
>    like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>    For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
>    years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and
>    general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make
>    your acquaintance.
>    --
>    Alan McKinnon
>    alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Alan McKinnon]

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Thanks :-D

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 8:32 PM Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> Hello, Alan.
>
> Welcome back!
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 20:15:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >    Hello Gentoo'ers
> >    After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> >    fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> >    eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
> >    the new laptop from work.
> >    Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
> >    like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
> >    For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
> >    years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and
> >    general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make
> >    your acquaintance.
> >    --
> >    Alan McKinnon
> >    alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
>

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Mark Knecht]

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:15 AM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hello Gentoo'ers
>
> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the
new laptop from work.
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
> For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and general
know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make your
acquaintance.
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

>
Nice to see an old friend back here.

Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Michael]

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On Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:04:37 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:15 AM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > Hello Gentoo'ers
> > 
> > After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> 
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the
> new laptop from work.
> 
> > Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
> 
> like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
> 
> > For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
> 
> years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and general
> know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make your
> acquaintance.
> 
> > --
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> 
> Nice to see an old friend back here.
> 
> Mark

+1

Welcome back Alan, after what was it ... 6 years or so?

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Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:15:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
> the new laptop from work.

You're still alive! Welcome back!


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Bagpipe for free: Stuff cat under arm. Pull legs, chew tail.

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Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday, 31 August 2023 19:15:00 BST Alan McKinnon wrote:

> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got fuzzies
> but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but eventually
> got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the new laptop
> from work.

Alan! It's good to see you back again. I've often wondered what had become of 
you.

Next time you're in these parts I'll buy you a beer - a real beer, not that 
super-cold, high-strength, fizzy, tasteless lager that everyone ontside these 
shores seems to drink.

Cheers!

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Dale]

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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Hello Gentoo'ers
>
> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
> the new laptop from work.
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
> like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
> For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
> years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and
> general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make
> your acquaintance.
>
> -- 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com


It's a good thing.  I was about to email you again and see if you were
still kicking and how high, given it has been a while.  :-D 

Welcome home!!

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[William Kenworthy]

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Welcome Back to the force :)

BillK

William Kenworthy


On 1/9/23 02:15, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Hello Gentoo'ers
>
> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got 
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but 
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on 
> the new laptop from work.
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names 
> like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
> For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19 
> years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and 
> general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make 
> your acquaintance.
>
> -- 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> 
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar
> names like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.

  Welcome back.  Gentoo has smoothed off the rough edges, and emerge
rarely dies anymore.  As a control freak, the thing that annoys me is
all the gratuitous libs (cups/ghostscript/harfbuzz/etc) that apstreams
insist on forcing as dependancies.  But that's not Gentoo's fault.

-- 
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars.  Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer.  All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

[Alan McKinnon]

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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, almost feels like I was never gone :-D

Alan

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 5:34 AM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> >
> > Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar
> > names like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
>   Welcome back.  Gentoo has smoothed off the rough edges, and emerge
> rarely dies anymore.  As a control freak, the thing that annoys me is
> all the gratuitous libs (cups/ghostscript/harfbuzz/etc) that apstreams
> insist on forcing as dependancies.  But that's not Gentoo's fault.
>
> --
> I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
> frames, the first Browser Wars.  Searching for pages with AltaVista,
> pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer.  All
> those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
>
>

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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