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[News] More GNU/Linux Distributions is Good, More Fun(too)

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Time to move to Funtoo Linux

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| My primary reason to move to Funtoo is just for fun.  I miss the days back in 
| 2004 where I stayed up all night getting my new Gentoo system to run.  I 
| learned a lot about Linux in those days.  I feel it is time for me to brush 
| up on my skills.  Also, Funtoo makes it easier for users to create and update 
| their own Funtoo Portage system.  A must if a Gentoo-based system ever wants 
| to become bleeding edge again.     
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http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2009/01/29/time-to-move-to-funtoo-linux/

And despite the fact there is only one kernel 'version', /distributions/ of
kernel plus _other things_ is something Linus endorses:

Torvalds rejects one-size-fits-all Linux

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| Linus Torvalds has rejected the argument that Linux developers should pool 
| their resources behind a single distribution. 
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/246534/torvalds-rejects-onesizefitsall-linux.html

More distributions != fragmentation.

More distributions = more combinations of similar/same pieces to suit the task
at hand.


Recent:

Funtoo

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| I sit here watching the first emerge --sync go slowly scrolling by in
| preparation for my second go around with Funtoo. The Funtoo creator Daniel
| Robbins, the same man who gave us Gentoo, has started a new project for us
| geeks to play with. My first pass with it was fine, and I still have it
| going, however while it has a functional X server and environment, it never
| made it past being a chroot playtoy. This time I'm putting the code to the
| metal as it were.
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http://azerthoth.blogspot.com/2008/11/funtoo.html


What I’ve Been Up To – New site, etc.

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| http://www.funtoo.org has been redesigned. It now has more of a portal design
| to get you to the latest Funtoo, Funtoo+OpenVZ and Gentoo builds. I hope you
| like it :)
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http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/11/what-ive-been-up-to-new-site-etc.html


Metro 1.1 Released

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| I’ve just released version 1.1 of Metro and updated the QuickStart Guide to
| reflect this new version. Currently, the only way to install Metro is to use
| git – see the improved QuickStart Guide for more information.
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http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/11/metro-11-released.html


The Goal of Funtoo

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| We are not a “fork” of Gentoo in the traditional sense of the word, though of
| course we are trying to do things better (otherwise, what would be the point
| of doing anything?) We are trying to aim to be as compatible with Gentoo as
| possible, so that it is easy for us to share technology with Gentoo.
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http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/10/goal-of-funtoo.html


Metro Released

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| Hi everyone – Metro, my Gentoo automated build engine, has been released.
| I’ve written up a QuickStart guide to guide you through the process of
| installing and using Metro for the first time.
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http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/10/metro-released.html


KDE 4.1.2 Unmasked in Gentoo

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| Jorge beat me to it... I am very pleased to announce that KDE 4.1.2 is in the
| Gentoo official tree and I unmasked it a little earlier today. I think that
| all the big bugs have been squashed but there may be a few left lurking. I
| have learnt a lot more than I ever really wanted to about KDE initialization
| but hopefully that has helped me to improve the KDE experience in Gentoo.
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http://blog.cryos.net/archives/192-KDE-4.1.2-Unmasked-in-Gentoo.html


Gentoo still rules

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| Gentoo is pretty good for this kind of thing, whatever its other
| shortcomings. Does any other distro make it this easy to do such things? (I'm
| genuinely curious.)
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http://briancarper.net/2008/09/26/gentoo-still-rules/


Viva Gentoo

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| Talking about a light desktop, there is now a Gentoo project to bring LXDE,
| the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, to our beloved distro. I already
| committed PCManFM, a fast and lightweight, tabbed GTK+ file manager, which is
| used as the default file manager in LXDE.
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http://ben.liveforge.org/viva-gentoo


Satisfied Gentoo users

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| If you, like me, would rather “think positive” — life can be depressing
| enough as it is — then here are some more recent, positive, reactions from
| satisfied Gentoo users...
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http://ben.liveforge.org/satisfied-gentoo-users


I keep coming back to Gentoo!

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| And in general, portage and all the gentoo associated tools feel better,
| maybe because I have become more accustomed to them. And final point, I do
| not have to install g++, it is already installed. The toolchain is already
| there to compile anything that I want.
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http://rahulthewall.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/i-keep-coming-back-to-gentoo/
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