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Bloggin' from da library... and realizing the true advantage of Meta-Distributio

Published on Thu 07 of Apr, 2005

Just wanted to share with all yours out there, that I finally made a WLAN-VPN-connection from my Püppi's ThinkPad?. Finally, yeah, darn, it took some time... not too easy, doin' it with a Kubuntu I don't know.

So, here's a random thought:
Switch to Gentoo as fast as you can!!

Yeah, I hear all you Debian'ers: "We've got apt-get, that's as good as havin' portage and I save the compile time. And we're oh-so-proudly-GNU!" BLAH!
I'll show you, that you're not the purest of religions! (btw. aptitude is cool, nevertheless portage is better ;) )
Like most of you know: with Gentoo you got all the things you want and how you want them. Building from source is really nice for speed freaks ("Hey, I use -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" - "Really?! And your code still does what it's supposed to?!?"). It's also pretty good for the ones, who like to boast about doin' everything themselves(chances are, you'll never talk to a guy runnin' a LFS-System ;) ). But the one best thing is: it's the best that can happen to a community(or should I say THE community?)!

Building from source forces you to use open standards, to think of interoperability, to communicate with your peers. I can get support directly from the upstream developers without a hassle - because I use their code. I can count on the bug-reports of the upstream developers - because I use their code. My distro's team is 'only' relevant for the things that break in my distro, not in the parts of it. For my kernel there's kernel.org, for my desktop there's kde.org and so on. Solve the problem there, where it came from, not in your Debian/SuSE/Mandrake or whatever forum, you feel connected to!

Use the power of the network in the spirit of true openness!!

Gentoo is a Meta-Distribution?, with a Meta-Community? and that's how it's supposed to be. If your reason not to use Gentoo is, that the developers have become as arrogant as the Debian-folks, why not try SourceMage, the concept matters! And I'm looking forward to the future, when compile-time equals untar-time... bye, bye, distribution-concept!

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Born, went to school, started hacking on free software, did some major high availability sysadmin work in between, now back to my original passion: managing knowledge. :) -- Long CV

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