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Another video extravaganza is brought to you:

The Superiority of Gentoo

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On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:36:34 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

Another video extravaganza is brought to you:

The Superiority of Gentoo

OMFG! You, sir, have done it yet again! This video is
a veritable masterpiece!

You have yet again demonstrated your utmost mastery
of the GNU/Linux OS. I have been edified. I have
been converted.

I can only that others will be as enlightened as
I have been.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:36:34 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

Another video extravaganza is brought to you:

The Superiority of Gentoo

Mr. Flud, I am in total awe. You have no equal. You
have no peer.

Your expressions embody a simplicity and elegance that
absolutely no one can match.

I can only wish for more, more, more, more more...

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On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:26:42 +0000, Diego Garcia wrote:

OMFG! You, sir, have done it yet again! This video is a veritable masterpiece!

You have yet again demonstrated your utmost mastery of the GNU/Linux OS.
I have been edified. I have been converted.

I can only that others will be as enlightened as I have been.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Let's imagine in an alternate universe where down is up and dumb is smart, this took place.

A handicapped person creates Gentoo, halts development on his own OS due
to bricking it and starts using FreeBSD for a few months to try to figure
out how to make his own system run again.

Just two short years after Gentoo's initial release hits the market,
Robbins decides to just say fuck it, I quit, and signs over all rights to
the distro to four or five fellow retard users, you know, people like
Farley.

That was it, he had enough of his own bullshit that he created and got the fuck out of Dodge as quickly as possible, not even packing his bags before leaving.

Over the next several intervening years, this retard tries to rejoin the Gentoo project and is not allowed to because the people he signed it over
to don't want his type around.

Feeling dejected and stupid, he created another distro called FunToo and claimed it as the better Gentoo, the one he should have created all
along. He claimed it actually functioned properly, unlike Gentoo.

After keeping it available for about 17 years, and only ever attracting 73 users total over those 17 years, he called it quits on that one too.

This is Gentoo.

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On 2025-09-14, CtrlAltDel <Altie@AL.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:26:42 +0000, Diego Garcia wrote:

OMFG! You, sir, have done it yet again! This video is a veritable
masterpiece!

You have yet again demonstrated your utmost mastery of the GNU/Linux OS.
I have been edified. I have been converted.

I can only that others will be as enlightened as I have been.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Let's imagine in an alternate universe where down is up and dumb is smart, this took place.

A handicapped person creates Gentoo, halts development on his own OS due
to bricking it and starts using FreeBSD for a few months to try to figure out how to make his own system run again.

Just two short years after Gentoo's initial release hits the market,
Robbins decides to just say fuck it, I quit, and signs over all rights to the distro to four or five fellow retard users, you know, people like Farley.

That was it, he had enough of his own bullshit that he created and got the fuck out of Dodge as quickly as possible, not even packing his bags before leaving.

Over the next several intervening years, this retard tries to rejoin the Gentoo project and is not allowed to because the people he signed it over
to don't want his type around.

Feeling dejected and stupid, he created another distro called FunToo and claimed it as the better Gentoo, the one he should have created all
along. He claimed it actually functioned properly, unlike Gentoo.

After keeping it available for about 17 years, and only ever attracting 73 users total over those 17 years, he called it quits on that one too.

This is Gentoo.

I've tried Gentoo a couple of times in years gone by and I just don't get
it?
What's the purpose other than to play around with Linux.
I can install any mainstream distribution and be up and working in 10 minutes or so.
Maybe people with specific, esoteric needs or the desire to learn Linux from the
ground up Gentoo may be a good choice, but for me? Meh... I have more entertaining
ways to waste my time.
Like posting to COLa for example :)
--
pothead

"Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices.
Then our choices make us."
-- Anne Frank
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On 9/14/2025 7:56 PM, CtrlAltDel wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:26:42 +0000, Diego Garcia wrote:

OMFG! You, sir, have done it yet again! This video is a veritable
masterpiece!

You have yet again demonstrated your utmost mastery of the GNU/Linux OS.
I have been edified. I have been converted.

I can only that others will be as enlightened as I have been.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Let's imagine in an alternate universe where down is up and dumb is smart, this took place.

A handicapped person creates Gentoo, halts development on his own OS due
to bricking it and starts using FreeBSD for a few months to try to figure
out how to make his own system run again.

Just two short years after Gentoo's initial release hits the market,
Robbins decides to just say fuck it, I quit, and signs over all rights to
the distro to four or five fellow retard users, you know, people like
Farley.

That was it, he had enough of his own bullshit that he created and got the fuck out of Dodge as quickly as possible, not even packing his bags before leaving.

Over the next several intervening years, this retard tries to rejoin the Gentoo project and is not allowed to because the people he signed it over
to don't want his type around.

Feeling dejected and stupid, he created another distro called FunToo and claimed it as the better Gentoo, the one he should have created all
along. He claimed it actually functioned properly, unlike Gentoo.

After keeping it available for about 17 years, and only ever attracting 73 users total over those 17 years, he called it quits on that one too.

This is Gentoo.

In all seriousness, though, Gentoo and LFS have a place, in
*experimenting* with installing Linux, not in *using* Linux as the
weirdo we know too well does.
--
Joel W. Crump
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On 9/14/2025 8:07 PM, pothead wrote:

I've tried Gentoo a couple of times in years gone by and I just don't get
it?
What's the purpose other than to play around with Linux.
I can install any mainstream distribution and be up and working in 10 minutes or so.
Maybe people with specific, esoteric needs or the desire to learn Linux from the
ground up Gentoo may be a good choice, but for me? Meh... I have more entertaining
ways to waste my time.
Like posting to COLa for example :)

You had the normal reaction to it. The predictable reaction. The one
that a person, who isn't weird *AS FUCK* like Larry, would have.
--
Joel W. Crump
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:07:09 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

Maybe people with specific, esoteric needs or the desire to learn Linux
from the ground up Gentoo may be a good choice, but for me? Meh... I
have more entertaining ways to waste my time.
Like posting to COLa for example :)

Sure, there are many great ways to waste time other than in frustrating
and depressing ways.

It's ridiculous. Jacek Marcin, a COLA poster who is currently relaying
his experience with Gentoo states something to the effect of it took him
three fucking days to get sound to work on a Gentoo install.

Frankly, blowing your own head off would seem like more *fun* than yanking around with Gentoo.


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On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:11:19 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

In all seriousness, though, Gentoo and LFS have a place, in
*experimenting* with installing Linux, not in *using* Linux as the
weirdo we know too well does.

They might have been fun -- twenty five years ago. Note: that's a
personal state that the thrill of that sort of thing wore off a long time
ago, not that someone might find it valuable today.
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:36:34 +0000, Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> wrote in <1865302bf20f54c2$2413$2498948$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:

Another video

Did anyone actually watch this?
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