You're right. Jim Martin (the voice of Gary Gnu) does extensive work with Jim Henson Studios and is probably what caused my confusion. 20-30 years ago..it just kind of gets lumped together after a while.:)
You must be too young to remember Gary Gnu of The Muppets. His slogan: "No Gnews is Good Gnews with Gary Gnu" Pronounced: "No Ganews is Good Ganews with Gary Ganu" So by nature of generational pop-culture influences, I'm one of those that has to stop myself from putting a hard 'g' in gnu.
The source-based thing isn't even why most people use gentoo. According to a recent poll on the gentoo-user mailing list, most people like it because of Portage (the package management system), with Customisation / Control coming in second (performance was third). Portage rocks.
Exactly why I use it.
Being able to keep out unwanted fluff libraries (alsa, mmx, other things my pc or I have no need for) or easily include things like GTK2 when the program supports that compile time option, etc.
It took a while to compile big stuff (XFree, for example)on my PII 333, but before, when I had a 1Ghz with 512M of RAM shit really rocked.
Even with my slower machine, I still started with a stage 1 tar ball.
It was worth the wait.
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You're right. :)
Jim Martin (the voice of Gary Gnu) does extensive work with Jim Henson Studios and is probably what caused my confusion.
20-30 years ago..it just kind of gets lumped together after a while.
You must be too young to remember Gary Gnu of The Muppets.
His slogan: "No Gnews is Good Gnews with Gary Gnu"
Pronounced: "No Ganews is Good Ganews with Gary Ganu"
So by nature of generational pop-culture influences, I'm one of those that has to stop myself from putting a hard 'g' in gnu.
Being able to keep out unwanted fluff libraries (alsa, mmx, other things my pc or I have no need for) or easily include things like GTK2 when the program supports that compile time option, etc.
It took a while to compile big stuff (XFree, for example)on my PII 333, but before, when I had a 1Ghz with 512M of RAM shit really rocked.
Even with my slower machine, I still started with a stage 1 tar ball.
It was worth the wait.
Actually, Microsoft Hurd already rolls off the tongue like that. Say it fast- "Microsoft Hurd"..."Microsofturd"
How about Moving Mars?
Is it wrong to spend over 1/2 your financial aid on an Alienware laptop? Guess I better not take an ethics class when I start college.
Next year, when Camille drags you in her house, and goes to her room to change her clothes, FOLLOW HER. YOU IDIOT.