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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:52:35 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikau3KUOC1hTbvgV5x00vhzLrL_kw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinAWYOqLDnZe_Nj2FacRW6r2UH=Hg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:58, Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com> wrote:
>  On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Gentoo.
>>
>> After a few weeks of effort, I've just gone live with my very own Gentoo
>> system.  :-)
>>

Hi Alan!

Welcome to the club :-)

[-- snip --]
>>
>> So, thanks for all the help, everybody!
>>
>> --
>> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>>
>
> Gentoo has it's places, but at the end of the day, I just want my desktop
> system to work with little effort on my part.  And be consistent.  Ubuntu
> gives me that on a desktop -- well, it did, until they decided to switch to
> Unity.  But that's another topic...

How I wish I can use *any* kind of Linux for my desktop :-/

> For everything else (re: servers), there's Gentoo :)

Can't agree more ;-)

> I run a Gentoo VPS for a website.  I love the flexibility of Gentoo, the
> speed, the nothingness you start with and have to mold it together like you
> would an artist with a block of clay.

I was about to post something similar to what you wrote, but you did
it much more poetically.

Rgds,
--
Pandu E Poluan
~ IT Optimizer ~
Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-18  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-17 15:22 [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last! Alan Mackenzie
2011-04-17 16:42 ` James Wall
2011-04-17 23:58 ` Mark Shields
2011-04-18  4:52   ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-04-19  2:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-04-19  3:35   ` Pandu Poluan
2011-04-19  5:59     ` Mick
2011-04-19 22:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Kfir Lavi
2011-04-20  0:32   ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-20  8:32     ` Kfir Lavi

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