On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:40:13 +0000 (UTC)
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
Hello Hendrik,
> My son uses the gentoo distribution, and he loves it. Since all
I occasionally look at Gentoo, with a slightly green eye. I've never
quite mustered the courage to dive in, though.
> He gets an extremely up-to-date system (I gather it's usually more
> up-to-date than sid). It is a reportable bug if the gentoo package is
And that too, could be a problem for me; Occasionally, Debian Sid gets
"broken" and I wouldn't always know enough to be able to sort it out.
Especially if the problem meant I couldn't get on the 'net, because
with only the one machine available to me, I'd be completely unable to
seek assistance.
> It took all night and several extra gigabytes of temporary storage to
> install OpenOffice, though.
That's annoy my missus no end. She thinks my machine is on too long,
as it is.
> By the way, I use etch and try hard not to install anything that
> doesn't arrive as a Debian package.
I use Testing, and mostly use .deb packages, as I said. TBH, the ones
I do compile, I could probably get away with not doing so. It's just
that these few I like to be fairly up to date on.
> up-to-date-ness, and having troubles. Xorg didn't autoconfigure
> properly.
Which would be a killer for me.
--
Regards _
/ ) "The blindingly obvious is
/ _)rad never immediately apparent"
When I say ugly, I don't mean rough looking, I mean hideous
Ugly - The Stranglers
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature