A comment I could have written word for word.
Not hyperbole to say that Gentoo set the course of my life. I don't use it anymore, but I'll never forget my time with it.
Long may it continue.
A comment I could have written word for word.
Not hyperbole to say that Gentoo set the course of my life. I don't use it anymore, but I'll never forget my time with it.
Long may it continue.
Here another one o/
I got my first job in the web world because I was using Gentoo at home, and that totally defined my career as well. The day I build again a desktop computer, I think I'm going to install it again (although waking up at 4AM to check why the kernel or Konqueror weren't compiling and fixing the flag or dependency issue is certainly something I will not do again)
My old Athlon could write books about failed compilations and 13 year old me fudging up every config file.
Plenty of arguing with my parents to let me leave the computer on overnight to finish compiling KDE 3 on a Pentium 4.
What do you use now? Why’d you change?
Fedora. I use Linux for work and have kids, don't have the luxury to tinker as much as I used to.
You may or may not like FreeBSD. A lot of the packaging concepts in Gentoo came from ports (hence the name portage). FreeBSD has binary or source packages that can be mixed, is stable, and is slower moving than Linux (in a good way).