aevagentoo seems nice. i'm thinking of switching to gentoo
i mained gentoo back in the day and was very proud that i slogged through the really hard installation process and learned a lot from it, but i'm relieved that the docs promise you can power through an installation in about an hour on a modern system if you are really hurried and i think that's great
also I'm enjoying reading through the handbook which is very detailed but also very clear, so that's probably a good sign
Andrew Zonenberg@aeva isn't it "linuces"?
curtmack@azonenberg @aeva a certain sort of person would say "Linuxen", like oxen, Unixen, and VAXen
but that sort of person includes ESR and RMS, so take that into consideration
ティージェーグレェYeah the "VAXen" (and even "boxen" [plural in actual standard American English: "boxes"]) people always annoyed me.
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Always? You never learned of a "boxes" before boxen? Curious.
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Fascinating!
At least in my experience, the "boxes" seemed to stick with some older Sun Microsystems workstations insomuch as they had approximately the same form factor of a couple of XL pizza boxes stacked on top of each other.
The "boxen" nomenclature seemed as if it was a backport of "VAXen" but I dunno?
I didn't hear "VAXen" uttered until I was an undergrad in Minnesota, and by then I had already long since been coding on Sun and SGI systems at nps.navy.mil (now nps.edu) and everything in Minnesota felt as if it were at least a couple of decades behind the curve of what cohorts and I had been doing in California, so I chalked it up to more oddities from folks who were so far out of the loop I wasn't sure how to make heads or tails of a lot of it. (Eventually I gave up and dropped out of that college and retreated back to California and took a very different undergrad trajectory at UCSC.)
At least in my experience, the "boxes" seemed to stick with some older Sun Microsystems workstations insomuch as they had approximately the same form factor of a couple of XL pizza boxes stacked on top of each other.
The "boxen" nomenclature seemed as if it was a backport of "VAXen" but I dunno?
I didn't hear "VAXen" uttered until I was an undergrad in Minnesota, and by then I had already long since been coding on Sun and SGI systems at nps.navy.mil (now nps.edu) and everything in Minnesota felt as if it were at least a couple of decades behind the curve of what cohorts and I had been doing in California, so I chalked it up to more oddities from folks who were so far out of the loop I wasn't sure how to make heads or tails of a lot of it. (Eventually I gave up and dropped out of that college and retreated back to California and took a very different undergrad trajectory at UCSC.)
@teajaygrey @azonenberg I have never used the word "VAXen" and don't know what it means (I assume from context it refers to a plurality of VAX machines, which I have never used)
to me "boxen" is just a word savvy people use sometimes