Captains log; stardate Saturday 17 January 2004 11:13 am, Lieutenant Bill Davis reported that.......

> I am really having fun with Gentoo so far, but all my experience is on
> Distros that do stuff automatically and that I am having to do manually
> now. Makes for a different experience, but now I realise that this is the
> way that I should have learned Linux to begin with.
>
> Thanks again
> Bill Davis

I agree, Gentoo is the type of Distro most people should atleast LEARN on, even if they don't stay
with it. I started with RedHat about two and a half years ago (with 7.2) on a secondary machine,
and followed all the way up to 9.0 (Buying a copy of 7.3, 8.0 came with the RH bible, and got a
year of the RHN to get RH9 faster) and then switched to gentoo in the early spring of 03 when I
finally got fed up with the way RedHat hacks and crippling alot of their software (using unstable
packages and hacking them to get them to work, mucking with the way KDE and Gnome look a la MSFT,
moving file locations et al, and I finally jumped into gentoo (I tried a few others in between but
never found one to suit). What initially kept me with Gentoo was Portage.

Anyways, to make a long story short, when I swapped to Gentoo it was like a whole new (much
brighter) world. Once you relearn things to match gentoo, everything is so much easier, faster,
more stable...well I could keep going on for weeks and still not finish the list....
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Shan Destromp
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