That about sums it up. I actually started with Debian, then tried Fedora (back when it was called Fedora Core), but once I moved to Gentoo I knew I had found my ideal OS. All of the decisions are placed in my hands, and while that would overwhelm some, it's exactly what I wanted.<br>
<br>Lawrence<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike Harrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cluon@geeklabs.com" target="_blank">cluon@geeklabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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It was a pleasure making it to a physical meatspace ALE meeting last nght.. and while recapping what I learned from ya'll back at the office in Chattanooga, I realize what everyone was seeking from their distro of choice was: Control.<br>
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The degree varied.. I install mostly from binary repo's, others went more for direct from source... Even Jim talked of controlling large numbers of systems well wil Redhat.<br>
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But the theme hits me as: Control.<br>
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As opposed to the other OS's and some Linux distro's where they make more and more of the decisions for you and take more and more control away.<br>
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We are all a bunch of control freaks. ;)<br>
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