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Comment on The Pan Pipes of Gentoo Linux, Always at the Source by Mark Rushing

Mark Rushing — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:18:00 +0000

Thanks Chris! Yeah, back then I can remember many times having to hunt down problems in makefiles. I’m amazed at how few problems crop up any more in the source that’s out there. I used to be you could count on it with almost any given piece of software. Now it seems to be the exception instead.

Comment on The Pan Pipes of Gentoo Linux, Always at the Source by Chris Brennan

Chris Brennan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:29:00 +0000

Quite the poetic story you weave. And this is coming from a very long time Gentoo user (back around late ’07/’08 when it was still fresh and running from from the citadel you mention.

Comment on The Pan Pipes of Gentoo Linux, Always at the Source by pepoluan

pepoluan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:28:00 +0000

Indeed! In fact I’ve planned to ask my new employer to provide me with 2 or 3 servers “to fool around with”

Comment on The Pan Pipes of Gentoo Linux, Always at the Source by Mark Rushing

Mark Rushing — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:04:00 +0000

Oh man, Pep. I’ll do what I can to keep the bonfires burning. You could always lead a double life… …. …..

Comment on The Pan Pipes of Gentoo Linux, Always at the Source by pepoluan

pepoluan — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:33:00 +0000

This… this is so poetic that you touched something deep in my soul… something that makes me glad for I have partaken in the Gentoo initiation ritual, survived, and came out stronger… yet that something also made me sad that in the near future, I’ll be leaving my beloved Gentoo servers behind and start baby-sitting the cold, heartless, borg children servers produced — not birthed — out of the tartarus called Richmond.

And like you, I know that some day in the future, the haunting calls of Gentoo will every now and then beckon me to step out of my nursery, and join the druids’ dance under the stars, a tribute to The Source where it all began.

Comment on The Pan Pipes of Gentoo Linux, Always at the Source by Sergio Rodríguez Inclan

Sergio Rodríguez Inclan — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:19:00 +0000

Haven’t you tried Sabayon Linux, is Gentoo with binaries, you should give it a try, thanks for the post

Comment on Ubuntu and I – Beauty Isn’t Enough by Mark Rushing

Mark Rushing — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Yeah, there seems to be a strange problem – the move to unified desktops seems to mean that easier customization goes out the window. Whereas if you go with something very customizable, you seem to end up sacrificing some of the niceties that come with unified experience. It’s certainly a challenging architectural design problem….

Comment on Ubuntu and I – Beauty Isn’t Enough by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:07:00 +0000

Very nice article. There must be a lot of people with your exact experience. I’ve tested a lot of distributions lately because sooner or later something about each of them started to really annoy me. Even the new Mint with its Gnome3/MATE(?) mash I found really annoying because it’s not exactly straight forward to customise.

I ended up using Xubuntu but got frustrated with LightDM so I installed an extra partition with Arch which is a lot of work as you mentioned. However, if you do have the time it’s a great learning experience and you do eventually end up with exactly what you want. I like fast and minimal OS so my current favourite is somewhere between Xubuntu and Arch. Give Xubuntu a try if you liked the Ubuntu-Gnome2 kind of feel.

Comment on Ubuntu and I – Beauty Isn’t Enough by Rahul Dsouza

Rahul Dsouza — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:17:00 +0000

I’m sorry, while posting the previous one I completely forgot about what you said about MATE. Yes it is quite an interesting development. I would still much rather use XFCE but MATE is much better than MGSEj (though I like Gnome Shell’s expose like feature). My dream though is that someone listens to Linus T and forks Gnome 2.x (but it probably will not happen).

Comment on Ubuntu and I – Beauty Isn’t Enough by Rahul Dsouza

Rahul Dsouza — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:12:00 +0000

I started off with computers fairly early, my dad thought it was a great way for me to cope with my dyslexia. Now computers in Bombay in 1998 cost a small fortune and as you can imagine we all turned to piracy. Besides ethical and moral questions there was the constant threat of the computer crashing. My initial interest away from a Windows based PC was to be fascinated by Apple (I still like many things about their operating system – a system perfectly tailored to people with Learning disabilities) but at that time I had first heard about Linux. Now even though I had started of on computers fairly early I never really got into anything technical. As you can imagine the articles I came across at the time were very very technical so I thought nothing about it. Then I heard about a distro – I can’t quite remember which one (Debian, Fedora, Red Hat or Mandrake are likely candidates) and it momentarily held my interest, but at the time I couldn’t find anyone to help me with installation (community documentation is so much better now) and so I just kept thinking about it from time to time. Finally I saved up and bought a macbook and this completely transformed my academic life (until someone stole it). This is when I realised that I could not go back to Windows. This is when I decided to take a chance and try Linux. After I found Ubuntu it’s been fairly smooth sailing and I don’t think I can ever look back. Now what’s left is to find a good second hand Thinkpad T series laptop and say good by to proprietary software for good.

To go back to the original reason my dad bought me a computer, I do find the libre office dictionary to be lacking in quality correction, unlike the one on word, something that I hope will change as it goes from strength to strength (hopefully with that beautiful Citrus UI mockup)