gnome2 ramblings

[Collins]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:52:59 -0400 dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> begin  Collins's  quote:
> 
> | Ah the joys of gentoo.  All I had to do was comment out a few
> | lines in the package mask (marks packages that are still under
> | development), fire up an emerge, turn off the terminal, and go to
> | bed.  This morning gnome2 was ready to roll.
> 
> honestly. someone could say "too bad elvis is dead," and within a 
> cycle or two you would would inform us, "well, i'm not dead, but i 
> run gentoo."<g>
> 

Right on - I'm incorrigible.  As soon as I get around to it, I'll be
getting the official gentoo T-shirt (not kidding in the least).

Using gentoo is so easy that it's scary.  There are a host of
developers who have major package installations down to a science, and
there are a host of users who check out the early versions and suffer
all the blood letting.  Since none of these guys are paid, I plug
their good work whenever I can, and I complain bitterly to them when
(seldom) they screw up.  

Except for the occaional bit of tinkering (Slackware, ELX, for
examples), I'll never stray too far from gentoo.  Never say never, but
I doubt that I'll want a UnitedLinux offering.  My interest in gnome
may wane fairly rapidly, too, since I haven't found anything I need to
do that it does better than xfce.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla
temporarily running gnome2