[ale] Last nights meeting.. Control

[Lawrence Hamblin]

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.

Lawrence

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> But the theme hits me as: Control.
>
> 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.
>
> We are all a bunch of control freaks. ;)
>
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