[Tfug] Tweet from Michael Foord (@voidspace)

[erich]

Joe Roberts wrote:
> I've been using Gentoo on my desktop almost exclusively since 2002 and
> I don't think of it as a particularly broken or unstable distribution.
>
> What does sometimes happen is things break *really badly* in Gentoo,
> when they do tank, which is fairly rare.  I went through this last
> week.
>
> One thing that is making life complicated in Gentoo is that KDE4
> remains unstable.  Increasingly this is relying on unstable packages
> outside of KDE4, which sometimes makes things difficult and
> unpleasant.
>
> The nature of Gentoo is it encourages users to tinker, sometimes maybe
> with things they shouldn't be tinkering with (well, this is my problem
> anyway).  It makes you really comfortable screwing around with
> compilers and their switches, different library versions, and so on.
> You can very easily hose your system this way.
>
> Obviously those who are Linux geniuses don't have this problem as often.
>
>   
    This is currently my problem. I tried to install 2008.0, and it is too
far behind the times to be upgradeable.
     However see:

               http://www.gentoo.org/

They've come out with a 10th anniversary DVD that I'm currently
downloading after hours. My vintage WorldCare box in the
shop will be the guinea pig for it.

                                                                                                          
Erich

> Overall, after 7 years of Gentoo, I'm only ever inclined to switch
> when I run into some horrible dependency problem and I ask myself how
> much I really care about rolling upgrades and having the latest and
> greatest version of something, which is rare.
>
> Ordinarily I don't think about it too much.
>
> On 10/3/09, Linux Media <linuxmedia2 at aim.com> wrote:
>   
>> Chris Merle wrote:
>>     
>>> http://twitter.com/voidspace/status/4549676755
>>>
>>> "I guess it's true - Linux is for people who don't mind things being
>>> broken, Gentoo is for people who *want* them to be broken."
>>> - Michael Foord (@voidspace)
>>>
>>> Saw this tweet this morning and thought I'd share/stir the pot and see
>>> whether y'all agree/disagee/etc.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>> ----
>>> (sent via mobile)
>>>       
>> Hi,
>>
>> About five years ago I used SuSE. And even back then it was as easy to
>> use as Windows. In fact, I sold my computer (with SuSE) to some woman
>> next door who didn't know a lot about computers. I showed her how to do
>> certain things, like Instant Messaging, web surfing, email and the usual
>> stuff people used their computers for. And for the most part, she took
>> what she learned and ran with it.
>>
>> Rocco
>>
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