Mailing List Archive: he's baaaaaaack :-D

he's baaaaaaack :-D

Aug 31, 2023, 11:15 AM

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Hello Gentoo'ers

After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got fuzzies
but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but eventually
got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the new laptop
from work.

Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names like
Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.

For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19 years
ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and general
know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make your
acquaintance.

--
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

acm at muc

Aug 31, 2023, 11:32 AM

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Hello, Alan.

Welcome back!

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 20:15:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Hello Gentoo'ers
> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
> the new laptop from work.
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
> like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
> For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
> years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and
> general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make
> your acquaintance.
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

alan.mckinnon at gmail

Aug 31, 2023, 12:34 PM

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Thanks :-D

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 8:32?PM Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> Hello, Alan.
>
> Welcome back!
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 20:15:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hello Gentoo'ers
> > After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> > fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> > eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
> > the new laptop from work.
> > Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
> > like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
> > For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
> > years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and
> > general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make
> > your acquaintance.
> > --
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
>

--
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

markknecht at gmail

Aug 31, 2023, 1:04 PM

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:15?AM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hello Gentoo'ers
>
> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the
new laptop from work.
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
> For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and general
know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make your
acquaintance.
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

>
Nice to see an old friend back here.

Mark

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

neil at digimed

Aug 31, 2023, 1:14 PM

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:15:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
> the new laptop from work.

You're still alive! Welcome back!

--
Neil Bothwick

Bagpipe for free: Stuff cat under arm. Pull legs, chew tail.

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

confabulate at kintzios

Aug 31, 2023, 1:15 PM

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On Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:04:37 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:15?AM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Hello Gentoo'ers
> >
> > After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
>
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the
> new laptop from work.
>
> > Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
>
> like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
> > For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
>
> years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and general
> know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make your
> acquaintance.
>
> > --
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> Nice to see an old friend back here.
>
> Mark

+1

Welcome back Alan, after what was it ... 6 years or so?

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

peter at prh

Aug 31, 2023, 4:41 PM

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On Thursday, 31 August 2023 19:15:00 BST Alan McKinnon wrote:

> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got fuzzies
> but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but eventually
> got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the new laptop
> from work.

Alan! It's good to see you back again. I've often wondered what had become of
you.

Next time you're in these parts I'll buy you a beer - a real beer, not that
super-cold, high-strength, fizzy, tasteless lager that everyone ontside these
shores seems to drink.

Cheers!

--
Regards,
Peter.

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

rdalek1967 at gmail

Aug 31, 2023, 5:03 PM

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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Hello Gentoo'ers
>
> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
> the new laptop from work.
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
> like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
> For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
> years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and
> general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make
> your acquaintance.
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

It's a good thing. I was about to email you again and see if you were
still kicking and how high, given it has been a while. :-D

Welcome home!!

Dale

:-) :-)

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

billk at iinet

Aug 31, 2023, 7:29 PM

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Welcome Back to the force :)

BillK

William Kenworthy

On 1/9/23 02:15, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Hello Gentoo'ers
>
> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
> fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
> eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on
> the new laptop from work.
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar names
> like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
> For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19
> years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and
> general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make
> your acquaintance.
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

waltdnes at waltdnes

Aug 31, 2023, 8:34 PM

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar
> names like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.

Welcome back. Gentoo has smoothed off the rough edges, and emerge
rarely dies anymore. As a control freak, the thing that annoys me is
all the gratuitous libs (cups/ghostscript/harfbuzz/etc) that apstreams
insist on forcing as dependancies. But that's not Gentoo's fault.

--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.

Re: he's baaaaaaack :-D [ In reply to ]

alan.mckinnon at gmail

Aug 31, 2023, 11:05 PM

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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, almost feels like I was never gone :-D

Alan

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 5:34?AM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> >
> > Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar
> > names like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
>
> Welcome back. Gentoo has smoothed off the rough edges, and emerge
> rarely dies anymore. As a control freak, the thing that annoys me is
> all the gratuitous libs (cups/ghostscript/harfbuzz/etc) that apstreams
> insist on forcing as dependancies. But that's not Gentoo's fault.
>
> --
> I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
> frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
> pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
> those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
>
>

--
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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