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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 15:45:56
Message-Id: 4AAD13AF.7080905@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future by Albert Hopkins
1 Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 09:36 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >>>> Seriously, I doubt that the average Gentoo user comes from
5 >>>>
6 >> Distrowatch.
7 >>
8 >>>> Gentoo is born from a necessity which is very different from the
9 >>>>
10 >> usual
11 >>
12 >>>> binary distro. Gentoo has never been about fame or marketing.
13 >>>>
14 >
15 >
16 >> - - I came here because of distrowatch. I started with Mandrake 9.1
17 >> but didn't like the upgrade process. I went to distrowatch to see
18 >> what
19 >> else I could find to use. I found about about Gentoo and here I am,
20 >> years later using Gentoo.
21 >>
22 >
23 > What do our market research people tell us? ;-)
24 >
25 > -a
26 >
27 >
28
29 Good question. How would a person know if distrowatch leads people to
30 Gentoo or not? It's not like there is really any way to find out.
31
32 Dale
33
34 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org>