On 21/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karl Lattimer</b> <<a href="mailto:karl@nncc.info">karl@nncc.info</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Like a moth to a flame...</blockquote><div><br>oh dear... <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Just give it up. Please just stop talking, i may actually die of
<br>laughter.</blockquote><div><br>that would be a shame <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You can't justify it to me, you seriously can't I've been working with
<br>linux for years, and gentoo is a fad, it peaked, now its on the way<br>down. I've seen many fads come and go, but this is after all a market of<br>natural selection.</blockquote><div><br>I dont think it is a fad, i can see it being around for years. What i can see is a forking of gentoo which will be a binary one or ubuntu offering portage as an option as a package manager.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I remember the LFS fad, christ I even did it, took me 3 solid days to<br>get it running but that was back in 1997... My processor couldn't build
<br>anything in under an hour, with the possible exception of hello_world.c</blockquote><div><br>sounds like my 386sx <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Now I'm not a fedora zealot, I use it as a benchmark, </blockquote><div><br>benchmarks are always in the middle of the field so i'd say that is sensible. <br></div><br><snip><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
I've always gone back to rh/fedora because RPM works! <br></blockquote><br>They all work otherwise they wouldn't be used<br><br><br>FYI, the oldest distro that is still going is slackware<br></div></div><br>