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I started the build in the evening, and in the morning I waited for the current package to download, then closed the lid, put the laptop in the bag, took the train to school, connected to the school wifi, and continued the build in school.
It was fun to try but that's all I did, quickly moved on to something more sane.
Years ago, somehow, I wasted hours and days of computer and my time, compiling and fine tuning my gentoo system, god knows why, when next day I anyway format it to install newly arrived Ubuntu cd.
I'll never forget my first time building Gentoo, in school in 2003, on the school laptop. I started the build in the evening, and in the morning I waited for the current package to download, then closed the lid, put the laptop in the bag, took the train to school, connected to the school wifi, and continued the build in school. It was fun to try but that's all I did, quickly moved on to something more sane.
There was this sweet spot for a while where Gentoo just worked like a breeze, Where there weren't too many and too few useflags and when I would recompile Open Office when my dorm room was too cold in cold winter nights.
Years ago, somehow, I wasted hours and days of computer and my time, compiling and fine tuning my gentoo system, god knows why, when next day I anyway format it to install newly arrived Ubuntu cd.
I too used to obsess over customizing my OS. Now I just install Debian, a handful of programs I use daily and that's it. I can recreate my setup on another machine in 20 minutes.
That's more like a reminder the functionality and binaries were there for the last 20 years...
https://www.akhuettel.de/~huettel/plots/mirrors/binpackages-...
I never settled with Gentoo, but something about it made me interested. Not quite sure what.
Well, it is unique. It isn't another copycat or cosmetic derivative of Ubuntu.
Actually, for the most part, it's in a league of its own.
There was this sweet spot for a while where Gentoo just worked like a breeze, Where there weren't too many and too few useflags and when I would recompile Open Office when my dorm room was too cold in cold winter nights.
Only on HN could any state that Gentoo was ever in be reflected upon as "just worked like a breeze" unironically and I mean that in a fond, loving way.
