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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:36:43
Message-Id: 4AAD0377.8070001@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan wrote:
2 > Jesús Guerrero posted on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:11:42 +0200 as excerpted:
3 >
4 >
5 >> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:02:44 +0200, Sebastian Pipping
6 >> <webmaster@××××××××.org> wrote:
7 >>
8 >>> Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a
9 >>> table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is
10 >>> per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first
11 >>> places people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about,
12 >>> besides Wikpedia and ${distro}.org.
13 >>>
14 >> Seriously, I doubt that the average Gentoo user comes from Distrowatch.
15 >> Gentoo is born from a necessity which is very different from the usual
16 >> binary distro. Gentoo has never been about fame or marketing.
17 >>
18 >
19 > ++
20 >
21 >
22 - - I came here because of distrowatch. I started with Mandrake 9.1
23 but didn't like the upgrade process. I went to distrowatch to see what
24 else I could find to use. I found about about Gentoo and here I am,
25 years later using Gentoo.
26
27 Dale
28
29 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>