Gentoo Ricer Comparison

Dozix007 writes "The folks over at Funroll-Loops have created a funny comparison between the Ricer fad gripping the US, and Gentoo Linux. In a quote from the site 'Like the annoying teenager next door with a 90hp import sporting a 6 foot tall bolt-on wing, Gentoo users are proof that society is best served by roving gangs of armed vigilantes, dishing out swift, cold justice with baseball bats...'"

Comments

pffffffft.

[x.Draino.x]

This is just some Debian user with penis envy.

Gentoo

[Anonymous Coward]

I got a bad impression about Gentoo when it first started. A couple of the developers had a habit of spamming irc channels asking for help. They were really annoying in Slackware channels. "Hey! You already use a source based distro. You compile from source all of the time. Wanna be a developer on this new distro?"

I know a few people that became developers. IMHO, it was too easy for someone who didn't know what they were doing to become a developer. Some of the horry stories I've heard about broken packages and messed up permissions just confirms my feelings about Gentoo.

Whatever you do, don't let a Gentoo user start talking about emerge. They become as bad as Debian users that brag about apt-get.

Why single out only gentoo?

[jefp]

Change it to linux in general and it would be just as true.

Tried Gentoo....waste of time....

[Chanc_Gorkon]

Gentoo is nice, but I wasted my time. Binary packages are great because I didn't have to wait for the damn thing to compile. Optimizing to the hilt is only necessary if you really need too and most of the comments on that page sound like comments you'd see on MacRumors when the latest security patch comes out:

I applied the latest security patch from Apple and my Powerbook seems to have more zip.

If your Gentoo:

The just released a new package for X11 (4.3.9 up from 4.3.8) and I spent all night compiling it and it just seem so much faster then 4.3.8!

It's ridiculous. I have better things to do then compile X11 4-5 times a month or year depending on how fast the new packages come out just so I can gain 1 fps in a game or whatever.

Granted, if you actualy and really need that extra performance, then it's worth it (say if your working on embedded or other types of constrained platforms).

WTF? Who likes portage?

[evilviper]

I have a question. I'm a gentoo user, and I tried it because of the rumors that portage was better than the BSD port system. However, I find that the rumors are completely wrong, so I don't understand the praise portage is getting.

I've had tons of problems with it, and I KNOW how it works. God help the uninitiated. I don't think it's worth going into all the different instances right now, but let me summarize my question.

What's so great about an imitation ports system, that is so incredibly complex that it's borderline impossible for mere mortals to maintain or modify as needed, and that insists on installing new kernel sources before it will allow you to upgrade Mozilla (just because you happen to have rsync'd recently)?

Not a troll or flame. I'd like to hear some rational answers to explain this paradox.

Well...

[DoktorSeven]

Looks like that site now has a *lot* more ricer posts to put up. Thanks /. !

[Disclaimer: I use Gentoo and use t3h b3st flagz evah: CFLAGS="-O299 -fgo-really-really-fast -fround-off-all-numbers -fpi-is-exactly-three -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -mprocessor=pentium4 -mcomputer=pentium4 -lead -pipe -b4 -cu -fu -omg" )

Re:Old..

[prell]

Are Slashdot stories normally not parsed for racism or what?

Re:Older then the oldest?

[innosent]

Ok, I'll bite. I used gentoo because it has a FreeBSD-style ports system. Then I realized that FreeBSD also has a (better) FreeBSD-style ports system, and installs in less than a week.