[plug] Gentoo Users

[Euan de Kock]

I did leave gentoo for a while, but recently came back after getting
frustrated with some of the packaged versions of Linux.

I don't particularly like the direction Ubuntu is heading in, with the
fluendo mp3 codecs, mono, unity etc. Fedora is also becoming a bit
monolithic with Gnome 3 etc.

My main system has some special requirements, rt kernel, rock solid
firewire/ffado support and a lot of apps compiled direct from svn/git
sources etc (Ardour, Calf, Jackd, Blender ...)

I tried Ubuntu, Fedora and Mint, but after a while Gentoo and XFCE just
seemed to make the most sense.

Now my 6 core AMD Phenom rocks with a full preemptive rt kernel and 12Gb
RAM! (10571172k free!)

Regards,

Euan.

On 03/07/12 19:25, Jim Householder wrote:
> On 03/05/12 20:12, Jim Householder wrote:
>> On 03/04/12 18:04, Alexander Hartner wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Are there any other Gentoo users on this list ?
>>>
>>> Have fun
>>> Alex
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>> Me too. Netbook, laptop, and 2 desktops (now rarely used).
>>
> I'm seriously thinking of moving to something else, though, due to the
> number of times that updates have not gone smoothly, and packages like
> gcc, webkit, kdelibs, and xulrunner literally take hours to compile.
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