I'm a Gentoo user, used the 2004.1 Minimal LiveCD and a stage-1 package to start me off. I spent 2 days getting it working. Actually, I spent 2 days getting it running. I wouldn't really call it working. I was experimenting with make.conf, and basically I fucked it up big style. No problem, I've got plenty of time.
So I fixed up, did it again, and actually got GNOME running. It still sucked though, I was useless at kernel configuration. And I thought that using the 2.4 kernel would be best, you know, more stable. Well yeah, but I don't have hardware from the 90s.
3rd time around, it was cool, and still is. You don't need to reinstall when a new release comes out, just use emerge.
I love my system. It's tweaked specifically for my hardware and the use. It's fast, startup and use. It's lean. And I _did_ learn a lot from it. Thank-you Gentoo.
I personally am an open-source punk, but the only thing I push upon people is Firefox. Why? Because IE is starting to severely hold back the web. Technologies aren't on the uptake because IE doesn't support them. And if the technology isn't used because the software doesn't support it, then it won't get implemented, because it's not in widespread use! (If you get me.)
I'm so glad SVG was shipped with Opera, and that FF 1.1 will have it in. IE won't. It's a big restriction. W3C don't Recommend standards until they're widely supported by browsers. FFS, CSS2.1 is still not a Recommendation!
With Firefox, the web can advance almost as quickly as it's developed. With IE, the web stays at least 5 years behind.
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XML! Open-source! Standards-compliant! Rag-doll physics! (Oh wait, wrong buzzword-bank...)
Yeah, spelling and grammer...
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&p ostid=384992
Turns out it was a fake, but still, funny as heck to read.
I'm a Gentoo user, used the 2004.1 Minimal LiveCD and a stage-1 package to start me off. I spent 2 days getting it working. Actually, I spent 2 days getting it running. I wouldn't really call it working. I was experimenting with make.conf, and basically I fucked it up big style. No problem, I've got plenty of time.
So I fixed up, did it again, and actually got GNOME running. It still sucked though, I was useless at kernel configuration. And I thought that using the 2.4 kernel would be best, you know, more stable. Well yeah, but I don't have hardware from the 90s.
3rd time around, it was cool, and still is. You don't need to reinstall when a new release comes out, just use emerge.
I love my system. It's tweaked specifically for my hardware and the use. It's fast, startup and use. It's lean. And I _did_ learn a lot from it. Thank-you Gentoo.
I personally am an open-source punk, but the only thing I push upon people is Firefox. Why? Because IE is starting to severely hold back the web. Technologies aren't on the uptake because IE doesn't support them. And if the technology isn't used because the software doesn't support it, then it won't get implemented, because it's not in widespread use! (If you get me.)
I'm so glad SVG was shipped with Opera, and that FF 1.1 will have it in. IE won't. It's a big restriction. W3C don't Recommend standards until they're widely supported by browsers. FFS, CSS2.1 is still not a Recommendation!
With Firefox, the web can advance almost as quickly as it's developed. With IE, the web stays at least 5 years behind.
Just signed it as #3188.