Yes, I use Gentoo. So? I dont see any problem. I embraced my Gentoo distro long ago and I am happy together with my workstation (that is a stage 1 box!). I have a fucking lot of ebuilds in and outside of portage and my CFLAGS are pretty optimized and solid.
But thanks anyway asshole. Go and use your stupid Debian while I EMERGE new ebuilds.
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Anonymous2006-04-26 6:12
I like portage, I don't like apt. Maybe I'm just stupod.
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Anonymous2006-04-26 11:05
Install OS X. Problem solved.
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Anonymous2006-05-11 7:08
>>36
Opera sucks sure there's an ebuild for opera but it just get dropped to /opt, it's statically linked, and it's CLOSED SOURCE, which means that it is a BINARY package.
I'm using Gentoo for a few months now, coming from the Debian world.
Portage is fine, but not as advanced as apt-get, desinstallation for example. And portage is quite slow too. If i'd had some time, i'd rewrite it in C for my personnal use.
But gentoo wipes out Debian for documentation and communty, Debian's one is full of elitists and morons.
>>45 And portage is quite slow too. If i'd had some time, i'd rewrite it in C for my personnal use.
And be sure to compile it with some revved up CFLAGS!
GNU WILL DOMINATE ALL !
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE !
NON-GNU SOFTWARE FAGS WILL BE STANDING AGAINST THE WALL WHILE BEING SHOT !
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Anonymous2006-05-11 14:24
They will be shot with a GPLed gun, of course.
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Anonymous2006-05-11 15:00
>>39
the developers don't have big compiling-farms, so they cant compile all the software at once. there is a new release comming soon with gcc 4.1 and all the software recompiled. you can get gcc 4.1 anytime you want though and recompile all packages with srcpac.
>>52
There is no OS but GNU and Linux is its kernal
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Anonymous2006-05-12 3:28
The 10 commandments:
1. Thou shalt use RMS' definition of free
2. Thou shalt never distribute thy binaries, as it is every man's duty to waste time compiling
3. Thou shalt use a terrible directory structure to honour thy god
4. Thou shalt never put "." in the Path for "." leads to evil
To be continued
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Anonymous2006-05-12 5:52
>>54
Gentoo is not known for being up to date. It is in fact very much behind most any current distribution.
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Anonymous2006-05-12 6:16
>>57
Well if you go to the more wild ebuilds ~x86, you CAN have the most up to date versions of the software, sometimes with less then a week from the developer, ebuilds are easier to maintain
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Anonymous2006-05-12 7:07
ebuilds are easier to maintain
MOAR LIEK YOU CAN BUMP THE VERSION NUMBER OF THE EBUILD AND PRAY THAT EVERYTHING WILL STILL WORK WITH -O4, -ffast-math AND -funroll-loops
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Anonymous2006-05-12 7:53
>>58
~x86 is very much behind as well (I use it for anything that matters). If you really want to be up to date, you'll have to use -* builds and overlays.
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Anonymous2006-05-12 9:27
But gentoo is not about performance! It's about freedom of choice the true spirit of open source
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Anonymous2006-05-12 10:39
Lol freedom
No OS is actually freer than any Unix ever was:
1. You decide what to do and how exactly should it work
2. You can get it to do anything you want
3. There are no licenses
4. It's PD, GPL, BSD, commercial open source and commercial closed source compatible all-in-one
``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in ``free beer.''
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Anonymous2006-05-15 19:11
>>66
Looks like someone thought the Internet parsed TeX.
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Anonymous2006-05-15 19:56
>>67
Looks like someone is tryig to pull an ad hominem
>>69 You are the hippy for thinking that "free" means "including the freedom of raping me up the ass"
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Anonymous2006-05-16 10:33
>>69
The only freedom the GPL prohibits is the freedom of taking away the freedom of other people.
I can see how that would upset an amerikan.
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Anonymous2006-05-16 10:59
>>72
In other words, as soon as you use GPL in your software, it will become infected and you'll have to it make open-source. Oops, you believed us on that freedom talk at the beginning of the license? sux 2 b u, lol.
See this page for proof: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
They use their licence as a weapon to propagate themselves. Only use MIT-licensed libraries if you to prevent your software from being infected.
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Anonymous2006-05-16 11:21 (sage)
GPL vs *, wow I've never seen this discussion before.
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Anonymous2006-05-16 14:32
>>73
Infected is the wrong word. The real word is liberated.
And for you amerikans, liberated means "set free" not "terrorized", "communisted" or "nazified."
Free from things such as being able to produce a program for work which conforms to proprietary standards without having to reproduce a bunch of code which has already been written under a restrictive license (I'm looking at you, GPL).
Free from being able to mix and match code and give it to a friend without having to ferret out every bit of code that is not only used in the programs I'm giving him, but is also hidden in some obscure GPL'ed program somewhere.
Free from being able to do ANY thing that I want with the code.
That, my friends; is American-style freedom
Give me BSD ANY day!
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Anonymous2006-05-16 15:38 (sage)
>>75
Hey man, how about the freedom to choose whatever license you'd like to release the source under?
This "Freedom(TM), but only my way!" is really juvenile.
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Anonymous2006-05-16 16:39
>>76
1. Licence the proprietary code under the GPL. Proprietary code is evil.
2. Don't distribute binaries, that's almost as bad as using Opera. Oh wait, it's worse.
3. Sadly the GPL does not say anything about incinerating Jews, Hitler!!
>>77
You cannot choose a licence more Free than the GPL, so what you want to do is Evil(tm).
--
Evil(tm) is a registered trademark(tm) of Micro$oft(tm) Corporation.
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Anonymous (+5, insightful)2006-05-16 17:19
>>78
In the real world, you have these things called 'trade secrets', it's a part of 'competition', which is a sign of a healthy 'free market'. This results in having to either maintain your competitive edge by holding specifications secret, or starving in the street.
Of course, you'd have to live in a genuinely free (as opposed to a jee-ehn-yoo-inly Free) society to appreciate the value of capitalism; but trust me, there's a time and a place for cooperation, and the corporate world ain't it!
2. your point makes no sense
3. this point makes even LESS sense then #2 did.
lastly, the BSD license is far more free than the GPL. You might want to read up on it.
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Anonymous2006-05-16 17:47
Free \Free\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Freeing.] [OE. freen, freoien, AS. fre['o]gan. See Free,
a.]
1. To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which
confines,
Now can we stop bitching, GPL enforces what you can and cant do with the code. BSD does not. Guess which one is more free, tards?