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poast hosts a mirror for gentoo because I have used gentoo for 20+ years, it is my distro of choice when I can deploy it (example the database this poast is about to be poasted to is running gentoo) so to give back for 20+ years of giving me my freedom back I have given them some hardware we own to host packages for people to sync

> poast hosts a mirror for gentoo

Nice. Now that I've got 500Mbps fiber I could actually do that for Slackware.

But honestly I think seeding the Slackware torrent is probably an even better way for me to pay them back. I also seed the Linux Mint Cinnamon and XFCE torrents.

as an XFCE user since I first installed gentoo on my thinkpad I think t42 or t42p I cant remember back in 2004 that same install has made it to every thinkpad I've had since. everything is exactly the same except I use a dock similar to elementary os's dock on it now (still xfce4). I can open that laptop and it's exactly the same as the day I really started to learn how to use linux. rolling release distros rock

fun graf lore fact: I first used/learned linux in the late 90s with Caldera OpenLinux 1.3. my brother bought a "linux for dummies" book while in high school. ncurses based installer called LISA (linux install and system administration) and I think slackware still uses that to this day, or at least they did the last time I installed it

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