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OT, who runs Gentoo |
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On Saturday, December 3, 2016 12:21:55 AM EST Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> Unless something's changed in the past year or two, iirc Sony uses |
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> Gentoo as part of the backend of Gaikai, Google's used it for the base |
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> of ChromeOS... |
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Also is the base of CoreOS, widely popular. Google uses it in more than |
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ChromOS it was used in the OnHub router. I suspect Google has wider uses. |
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Google has hired a few core developers as has Gaikai. Both seem to be good, |
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though not sure Google is giving back as much given their financial benefit. |
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Gaikai isn't selling an OS, but Google is based on Gentoo... |
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> I can't speak for other 'big names', but Gentoo's not |
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> quite as niche as the small, active userbase has most of us believing. |
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FYI Network Solutions, which I believe at a time had a root DNS server running |
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Gentoo. Due to their parent company Web.com is, or has by now, moving from |
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Gentoo to RHEL. I was told they do not want to be in the operating system |
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development business. |
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Meetup.com runs Gentoo, not sure how widely but it is in use. Likely more out |
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there, but I see far more RHEL and CentOS. I do not even discuss Gentoo, as I |
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have to many say it can't be used in production, etc. Things I disagree with. |
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> There's also our downstream neighbors: Funtoo, Pentoo, Sabayon, |
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> Calculate, Exherbo, etc |
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Two of those are more of a splinter of the Gentoo community, Exherbo and |
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Funtoo. IMHO those communities should be reunited into Gentoo. Allot of talent |
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got driven way that is still out there working on other stuff. |
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> As for communities, lots of places from 4chan to lainchan, various mesh |
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> network users, security-conscious communities, OCD support groups |
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> (kidding), etc. |
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My concern is lack of any mention in the news or tech articles. When was the |
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last time Gentoo was making headlines and not for drama related stuff. |
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Gentoo News articles |
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https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=gentoo+linux |
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Arch News articles for example, other distros Ubuntu and Debian have allot |
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https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=arch+linux |
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Not my words but like say Infoworld articles, not that they are any authority |
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/3109830/linux/why-did-gentoo-linux-fade-into-obscurity.html |
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/3137969/linux/arch-linux-the-last-refuge-for-purists.html |
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