How about you yell fire 10, 50 or a hundred times, till people get the "joke" and then on the 101st time, there really is a fire, and a crowded cinema full of people die, because they stopped believing you.
You mean like these ridiculous fire-drills we've all been doing since a child? Fire alarms don't even phase me now. I'll never believe there's a fire until I see the flames.
How many people use the nVidia cards in their servers? None, I guess. nVidia, and most 3D-cards is used on personal systems, with one user, which is usually root
I just about spit my coffee out when I read this. Who the hell runs as root?! I don't know anyone who does, except possibly for a few noobs running Lindows.
hmmm.. I just "upgraded" my desktop from breezy to dapper. Surprisingly enough, it was actually easier than gentoo!
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
and here's the kicker... it worked:)
Hmm.. I could have sworn Ubuntu didn't have upgrade paths before, thats cool that it worked though, good to know:) (kubuntu is my 2nd fav desktop distro;) )
2.) Installing / maintaing gentoo has taught me many things about linux that I didn't know before. (I enjoy learning about linux, and Reading The Fucking Manual). Hell I'd never even compiled my own kernel before I used gentoo.
3.) I dont have to reinstall the entire OS every 6 months (Fedora/Ubuntu) to get the latest version. I always have the latest version.
Yes, it was a pain to stripe my drives with software RAID the first time I installed gentoo. And yes, sometimes its a pain to update/maintain the system... but I dont really mind because everytime I have to fix something I *learn* something.
I love gentoo the way it is, but as with anything else, its a matter of personal taste, if someone else doesn't like how gentoo works, then they should use another distro;)
"Right, you are! At the opening in May, see you!" exclaims Yoda.
Wow:o I'm in awe.. you take nerd-ery to a whole new level! Will somebody get this guy a trohpy? That was officially the fucking most-geeky thing anyone has ever posted on slashdot.
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I just about spit my coffee out when I read this. Who the hell runs as root?! I don't know anyone who does, except possibly for a few noobs running Lindows.
I've tried Redhat, Fedora, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.. and I've settled on gentoo as my desktop OS of choice for both home and work. Here's why:
1.) Gentoo has *the best* documentation available out of any linux distro I've used (even most of the conf files are fully commented) http://www.gentoo-wiki.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml
2.) Installing / maintaing gentoo has taught me many things about linux that I didn't know before. (I enjoy learning about linux, and Reading The Fucking Manual). Hell I'd never even compiled my own kernel before I used gentoo.
3.) I dont have to reinstall the entire OS every 6 months (Fedora/Ubuntu) to get the latest version. I always have the latest version.
Yes, it was a pain to stripe my drives with software RAID the first time I installed gentoo. And yes, sometimes its a pain to update/maintain the system... but I dont really mind because everytime I have to fix something I *learn* something.
I love gentoo the way it is, but as with anything else, its a matter of personal taste, if someone else doesn't like how gentoo works, then they should use another distro ;)
Maybe the biased & sensationalistic news organizations cause peoples apathy toward them. I'm sure rampant product placement within news stories isn't far off..
That's something a terrarist would say. We lock up terrarists indefinitely without trials here in the US.
Terrarist.
Wow