[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Bryan Fullerton]

On Thursday, Mar 20, 2003, at 22:59 Canada/Eastern, Jonathan C. 
Patschke wrote:

> Everyone around here who uses Gentoo has given me one, ONE argument for
> using it: "You learn so much more because it doesn't do anything for 
> you".
> In fact, at least one of the local zealots is convincing new-to-Linux
> users to install it on their systems.  Most give up in disgust, but the
> one or two that stuck with it think they're all-powerful now because 
> they
> went through half a dozen finger-exercises with tar and "emerge"[1].

Sounds like NetBSD - fun as a challenge to get a stripped-down OS into 
a usable state, but who actually uses it? (besides people running 
platforms that no other free *NIX supports ;)

Bryan