Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
By: Accession to DaiTengu on Fri Jun 07 2024 07:11 pm
D>> Meh, I've been using Gentoo for probably 20 years at this point. It has
D>> its quirks, but no distro has taught me more than Gentoo has.
Ac> I used it for about 5 years when I first started. I actually _chose_ to
Ac> use it when I wanted to learn and transition to Linux. Boy was I a glutton
Ac> for punishment, back then.
Ac> However, I agree with you there, as far as no distro has taught me more
Ac> than Gentoo, also. All the sleepless nights fixing what 'emerge -avuDN
Ac> world" did to me after compiling all night (and sometimes half of the next
Ac> day, too) to install and/or upgrade packages. :)
Fun fact, Gentoo now offers binary packages. This is a thing they did recently
.
one of my co-workers also runs Gentoo, but he's a bit more insane than I am. he
just did an update with the latest profile and it completely hosed his system.
I'm still running a Gentoo profile from 2017 I think. I got a notification the
other day that I need to update my profile to something newer, but you better be
lieve I'll be using some kind of clonedisk or something first just in case :D
DaiTengu
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