[TriLUG] Debian AMD64 anyone?

[Reginald Reed]

z wrote:

>On Thursday 18 March 2004 03:23 pm, elfick wrote:
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>>Reginald Reed wrote:
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>>>Thanks for the replies.  I saw the posts you mention on the mailing
>>>list.  This will be a good way to help me keep my technical edge in
>>>Linux, even though my Debian specific hacker prowess is what I consider
>>>limited.  Years of Redhat and Mandrake have softened me (which is why I
>>>started playing with Debian and *cringe* Gentoo last yr).
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>>>--Reggie
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>>cringe!?!?!???!!!! CRINGE?!! :-P
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>Yeah, I don't get that either, care to explain why you think that?
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No offense to anyone, but I've had nothing but negative experiences with 
Gentoo.  I admit that a lot of it has to do with my patience, but doing 
any level of "build from source" to get the initial system up and 
running is loaded with opportunities to screw up.  And this is coming 
from a person that has been hacking Unix one way or another for 15+ yrs.

Anyway, thats just been my experience in the past.  Being the distro 
junkie that I am, I'll likely revisit Gentoo again before the year is out.

--Reggie