From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QtG9D-00040j-B7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:41:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1EA921C0EC; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE56F21C0D9 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.144] (helo=smtp13.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtG7G-000493-9v for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:39:22 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp13.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtG7D-00025b-7P for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:39:19 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13C4CF1 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:42:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id M0D5p-DHwSH8 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:42:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56602B6C for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:42:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:39:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4528541.Q6rFBmdbnV@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1773453.JDRsLdBb5v@nazgul> References: <2657668.rWGk9bEjLz@eve> <1773453.JDRsLdBb5v@nazgul> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QtG7D-00025b-7P X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.746, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 1.24, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -1.07) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d4f1477024e16ad224e8ec390ac876d9 On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:30:03 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue 16 August 2011 11:15:21 Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > > On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: > > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mast > > > > > ered-wal l-street > > > > > > > > This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list > > > > with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? > > > > Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? > > > > What's your most interesting setup or use case? > > > > > > > > I had Gentoo on both my desktop and HTPC, but I had to > > > > cannibalize the HTPC for parts, so now it's just on my > > > > primary desktop box.> > > > > > > All my personal machines have run gentoo for 6 or more years now > > > plus my dev VMs. At work, it's encouraged for the dev > > > environments too. > > > > > > I was interested to read that NASDAQ runs a "modified" Gentoo > > > and > > > wondered "what does an unmodified stock Gentoo look like". Then > > > I > > > realised I was being silly, there's no such thing :-) > > > > Wouldn't that be what someone ends with after following the install > > guide? In other words, stage3? > > Well I'm being tongue-in-cheek :-) So was I, how much use is a stage3 install? > We all modify Gentoo to our own tastes, some a little some a lot. I tend to change what I want changing, not sure if that is classed as a little or a lot. I think I'd be somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes ;) -- Joost PS. I am thankfull for finding Gentoo, or I'd have ended up with LFS...