____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Tuesday 18 December 2007 16:44 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
> <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:33:37 +0000
> <hr5l35-fi3.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> My Debian Adventure
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| I'm feeling just as exhilarated about using Debian as I felt when I first
>>>| installed Mepis Linux over a year ago, and realized that I was going to
>>>| keep using it full-time, instead of Windows XP.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.computerbob.com/guides/my_debian_adventure.php
>>>
>>
>> Every time I start up a linux machine, I feel comfortable that its
>> behaviour will be reasonably predictable, and that if I make no changes
>> to it, it will merely keep working.
>>
>> That kind of reliability is priceless.
>>
>
> I've had issues with Gentoo, but in all fairness most of
> them are because of code changes -- and it's expected if
> someone changes something underneath. It just takes a
> little work (revdep-rebuild helps).
>
> Absent that...Linux just *works*.
Based on what I've been reading, some Gentoo loyalists are moving to other
Linuxes (and not just Sabayon, which Robbins talked about recently).
--
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