[LUNI] Gentoo

[Chris Scullard]

I completely agree. I have been using Gentoo for about 2 years now, and 
the only thing keeping me from ditching it is the large and helpful 
community. By "community" Trev and I seem to be talking about the huge 
forum at gentoo.org - perhaps there's another experience to be had some 
place else. Gentoo's biggest problem, for me at least, is that Portage, 
the package management system, has fallen into some disrepair. Lately 
you never know if your system will work after the next update, and the 
burden seems to be on the user to fix the problems that routinely crop 
up. If it weren't for the friendly and knowledgeable people on the forum 
to help with these issues, I certainly would not have stuck with Gentoo 
so long. In fact, it has felt at times that the great community was its 
only redeeming feature! I'm sure this post won't convince anyone to 
switch to Gentoo, but at least you might avoid it for the right reason.

Chris

Trev Peterson wrote:
> Funny my experience has been completely the opposite.  I'm sure there
> are a few bad apples out there I just haven't hit any yet (and I go to
> forums.gentoo.org a fair amount).  That said there is a lot of
> documentation available so you should check that out before asking
> questions otherwise people will probably refer you to it.
>
> Gentoo is by no means the easiest distro to use but IMO the community is
> one of its biggest strengths.
>
> 	Trev
>
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:03 -0600, Scott Lockwood wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:45 -0600, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
>>     
>>> Gentoo has potential but the community that I see is one that is very 31337ist,
>>> and is over all more hurtfull then to F/OSS then anything else.
>>>       
>> I had the exact same experience several years ago. I have never gone
>> back, or even considered using Gentoo as a result. It's interesting to
>> see my initial reaction was accurate, and seems to remain so years
>> later.
>>
>>