Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

[arnuld <geek.arnuld@gmail.com>]

> On 4/16/07, Bryan Whitehead <driver@megahappy.net> wrote:

> Nearly 28. Been using gentoo since version 1.0 (maybe pre-1.0 but can't
> remember).
>
> I started using linux back when slackware fit on a bunch of 5.25" floppies.

ooohhh.... you are an old time Linux user.  i am 26 and i started
using Linux 1.5 years ago with Fedora Core 3 and did dual-boot my
system with Windows XP and after 6 months i got rid of that crappy OS
and made my system fully GNU(ish) . it was Celeron 600 MHz . i loved
GNOME too much at that time.

after some months, i had some trouble with my new D-Link router and
felt totally frustrated when i tried Fedora's sysconfig GUI tools and
for the 1st time in my life  i got a chance to meet my 1st
configuration text file "/etc/resolv.conf", next one i hit was
"/etc/hosts". it was really difficult and coool....  at the same time
because i felt i am controlling my machine which was never possible
with Windows. after some more time passed, i installed Debian and used
it over a long time and just 3 months ago i started hating Desktop
things, i looked into some other distros and used many: gnewSense,
KATEOS, SOURCEMAGE, Lunar, Arch and lots of others and my hatred
towards Desktop based system grew in large proportions. i tried Gentoo
this time and did quit, it looked too weired to me,  finally i landed
with Arch and ran Xfce on the top of it as Arch Linux forces a user to
manage his system using command-line tools BUT that was not what i was
looking for. it seems like i had "the GNU OS effect" a.k.a "the UNIX
effect" a.k.a "command-line addiction" wired into me and when i read
this:

http://ironphoenix.org/tril/fvwm/

i came to know i was not the only one, so i finally quit the Xfce and
landed onto Window Maker on Arch. i was not satisfied yet and my
journey reached at Gentoo Linux, NO Xfce, NO GNOME ....no GUI tools
and menus..... i feel good now, i am running Window Maker for now but
will switch to another Window Manager where i will make design-use by
own hands, like FVWM, IceWM or Sawfish,i am just reading the different
articles on these.  i think one day i will land on GNU Screen with
RatPoison  but for now a Window Manager will rule:-)


> I now work full time at a startup in the silicon valley watching over 4
> datacenters full of CentOS machines (and some Solaris).


good got any job for me there...  ;-)

may be i could make some money and buy an LCD monitor, for keeping
eyes n good condition


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