[Cumbria] Gentoo Zealot Translator-o-matic

[Luke Antins]

lol, that made me giggle.

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Kind Regards
Luke Antins

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Michael Saunders wrote:

> Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic
>
> Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great
> features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless
> wannabes who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity.
> Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it
> really means...
>
>
>    "Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
>
> "Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling
> something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time
> to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable
> optimisation settings."
>
>
>    "Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
>
> "Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a
> single program in my life or contributed to an open source project,
> yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps
> me contribute to international freedom."
>
>
>    "I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
>
> "Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine,
> but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but
> the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be
> for using Gentoo."
>
>
>    "Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo."
>
> "I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands
> of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user
> input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant
> difference with optimisations, and RPMs and .debs can be rebuilt with
> a handful of commands, my box MUST be faster. It's nothing to do with
> the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running
> BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."
>
>
>    "...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
>
> "...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the
> third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."
>
>
>    "You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..."
>
> "I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be
> resolved by specifying BOTH .rpms together on the command line, and
> that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages
> instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together
> (which the system wasn't designed for)."
>
>
>    "All the other distros are soooo out of date."
>
> "Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software
> makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and
> patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just
> emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -09
> -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."
>
>
>    "Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
>
> "OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the
> near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still
> eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met
> on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"
>
>
>
>
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