[olug] frustration: first Slackware, now Gentoo

[Daniel Pfile]

You two are soo cute. :)

Ok, on topic sorta. I'm planing on moving my main linux box to some 
different hardware so I'm considering moving from Debian (stable) to 
Gentoo. The package management in gentoo seems to be like a cross 
between debian and freebsd, which looks nice. I'm not worried about 
install difficulties, or ultra ease of use. My main desktop has become 
my OS X powerbook (wow, macs rule these days) so GUI isn't a big 
concern either. Just a cleanly designed and thought out system. 
Development tools, samba, netatalk, LAMP, etc, are all I really need. 
Debian policy has me spoiled. I just spent the past 2 days at work 
wrestling redhat, I came home and hugged my debian machine. (Well, I 
actually sorta patted it's case and said nice box)

So my question is, have any other debian heads made the switch. What do 
you think of it?

-- Daniel

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 01:22 AM, Brian Roberson wrote:

> ahh... nevermind neal... he is just a whiner ;-)
>
> neal... take two steps back.... I know your capabilities, but I also 
> know
> your lack of patience. bring your laptop by sometime and I will hold 
> your
> hand if you want ;-)
>
>
>
> PS ... THIS IS A PERSONAL POKE, NEAL AND I GO WAY BACK.. ( keep the 
> flames
> to yourself ;-)
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Warren" <thechunk at cox.net>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] frustration: first Slackware, now Gentoo
>
>
>> I wish I could help I have had such a different experience with 
>> slackware.
> I keep current of the slackware-current changes and burn a cd anytime 
> I need
> to do an install.  I have never had a hard time. Infact a slackware 
> iso is
> my rescue image because it works so well.  Anything I can do to help 
> please
> don't hesitate to ask.
>>
>> -Jon Warren
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:00:38PM -0600, neal r wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>   I got fed up with Slack 8.1 after installing about six times and I
>>> downloaded Gentoo. The CD created from the iso is not bootable, and
>>> there aren't even *cryptic* instructions on the disk describing how 
>>> to
>>> make it go.
>>>
>>>   I could have installed 52 FreeBSD boxes in the time I've been 
>>> messing
>>> with one Linux install *grrrrrrrr*
>>>
>>>
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