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Monday, November 08, 2004
Re: Your Llinux Distro - Gentoo
Apparently my previous post, about what your Linux distribution says about you, struck one of Eckhart's nerves so I guess it is time to do a response.
Eckhart starts out with "But it is (relatively) straightforward to write scripts that will update all your software automatically at night, and you can also install new software over night"
Only "relatively straightforward" to write a script that will handle automatic updates, wow. With all the skills learned from installing and maintaining a gentoo system, it is still not easy to write a simple script? In my favorite Linux distribution, this can be done by placing a file with:
#!/bin/sh
urpmi --auto-select --force
in /etc/cron.daily and voila you would have your automatic update, and it would properly only take a few minutes to run.
Eckhart continues with: "I have not reinstalled it more than once". Excuse me for this error, but it is kinda hard to tell when someone spends 90% of their time compiling and recompiling.
"The advantage of all this, is that I know how to set up X properly"
I have been using Linux for 5-6 years now, and I have spend my share of time configuring X, kernels etc. so I am not a totally unskilled when it comes to configuring systems from bottom-up. I must however say that I do not miss the days old days. I see no reason for spending more time than necessary configuring my system, which brings me back to one of the original points about gentoo users, they have so many good excuses for not doing any real work. The few hours a day I have some free time university and work, I do not want to spend it looking at configuration files.
Before I finish I just want to make one more personal attack on Eckhart :-) Eckhart has stated that he knows how to set up X properly, but strangely enough he did not know how to disable the NVIDIA splash screen, which appears each time X starts up and pauses the process for a few seconds. How on earth could I, a non-gentoo person, figure this out? Because if I have a personal best friend called Google, who can help me answer most of my questions.
To conclude on Eckhart's post, I have still not realized what is the great thing about gentoo, that lead to someone saying "beats all the competion in terms of everything, except install time". What makes gentoo special except its installation tool?
Eckhart starts out with "But it is (relatively) straightforward to write scripts that will update all your software automatically at night, and you can also install new software over night"
Only "relatively straightforward" to write a script that will handle automatic updates, wow. With all the skills learned from installing and maintaining a gentoo system, it is still not easy to write a simple script? In my favorite Linux distribution, this can be done by placing a file with:
#!/bin/sh
urpmi --auto-select --force
in /etc/cron.daily and voila you would have your automatic update, and it would properly only take a few minutes to run.
Eckhart continues with: "I have not reinstalled it more than once". Excuse me for this error, but it is kinda hard to tell when someone spends 90% of their time compiling and recompiling.
"The advantage of all this, is that I know how to set up X properly"
I have been using Linux for 5-6 years now, and I have spend my share of time configuring X, kernels etc. so I am not a totally unskilled when it comes to configuring systems from bottom-up. I must however say that I do not miss the days old days. I see no reason for spending more time than necessary configuring my system, which brings me back to one of the original points about gentoo users, they have so many good excuses for not doing any real work. The few hours a day I have some free time university and work, I do not want to spend it looking at configuration files.
Before I finish I just want to make one more personal attack on Eckhart :-) Eckhart has stated that he knows how to set up X properly, but strangely enough he did not know how to disable the NVIDIA splash screen, which appears each time X starts up and pauses the process for a few seconds. How on earth could I, a non-gentoo person, figure this out? Because if I have a personal best friend called Google, who can help me answer most of my questions.
To conclude on Eckhart's post, I have still not realized what is the great thing about gentoo, that lead to someone saying "beats all the competion in terms of everything, except install time". What makes gentoo special except its installation tool?
posted by Brian Jørgensen at 11:44pm.
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