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anonymOus commented on 28 April 2004:
I tried Gentoo a few months ago (before the LiveCDs), got it running with a little work, and it was okay. But I went back to Mandrake pretty quickly. Some advanced desktop features were missing, such as an equivalent to Mandrake's combination supermount/hotplug support. I had to specifically emerge almost all of the programs I wanted to use because the base install was so stripped down. And I sure hope the install is now easier than the old "partition by hand using fdisk" install that I had to do (it wasn't so hard for me, but for a newbie...)
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Supermount/hotplug is supported in gentoo, you just didn't know how to read, apparently.

I searched the forums for "supermount"

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120303&highlight=supermount

tells you how to set it up -- IF YOU'VE INSTALLED A VANILLA KERNEL.

if you set up the gentoo-sources kernel, the supermount patches are already included.
The best thing about gentoo is it's documentation and community. You ahve to use them if you want to use gentoo.

also,
$ esearch hotplug
[ Results for search key : hotplug ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

* sys-apps/hotplug
Latest version available: 20040401
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 40 kB
Homepage: http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
Description: USB and PCI hotplug scripts

what's not included? I dont' mean to be rude, but this post has taken me a total of 3 minutes of my life...

good luck to ya

I tried Gentoo a few months ago (before the LiveCDs), got it running with a little work, and it was okay. But I went back to Mandrake pretty quickly. Some advanced desktop features were missing, such as an equivalent to Mandrake's combination supermount/hotplug support. I had to specifically emerge almost all of the programs I wanted to use because the base install was so stripped down. And I sure hope the install is now easier than the old "partition by hand using fdisk" install that I had to do (it wasn't so hard for me, but for a newbie...)

I am relatively new to the Linux game, so perhaps I am just ignorant -- so please forgive me if that is the case. However, it seemed to me as an outsider that true geeks used Linux, while mortals used Windows and Mac. However, having joined the fray it seems that within the Linux community is highly fragmented. Now it seems that the true geeks use Debian and Gentoo, while the mortals use Mandrake and Red Hat. Weird.
-m

I've used Gentoo since last October. Before that, I had essentially never seen a Linux machine. It is my first distro and I haven't really looked back. I've tried others just to see what they were like, mainly Fedora and Debian, but they just don't shape up to the standards I've put and Gentoo has given me. It took a while in the beginning to learn all the ins and outs, but now I can navigate through it with so much ease. Hoorah to Gentoo and its bleeding-edge innovation.
And the day came when the risk to remain closed in a bud, became more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Gentoo is great, gives me more stability on my amd64 to easily experiment with x86 source (stable experimental code is rare). I agree with aeoo that Daniel made a wise decision. I do wonder what the guy is going to do now.

I think Daniel made a very wise decision. Gentoo is his child, and it looks like the child is reaching maturity and it's time for Gentoo to move out of the parents' house.

If you love something truly, let it go!

I've been running my current system since October 2002, and never had to use a semi-broken "upgrade" disc. If I tried to upgrade RedHat 7.3 to RedHat 9, I doubt it would work as well. Plus I don't have to wait X months to upgrade to the next versions of software.

My system stays up to date and I stay happy :)

I think the best part of Gentoo is being able to run GNOME 2.6 when it was released in a fairly no-hassle way.