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On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 16 December 2012 16:57, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Inspired by the number of packages being unmaintained -- why not use |
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>>> some of that bug bounty money to fix up the recruitment documentation |
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>> Recruitment documentatiob? What does that mean? |
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>>> People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all |
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>>> the time, when in reality, it's one of the most stable. |
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>> Well that's not entirely true but that's a different issue |
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> What's not really true? That it's the most stable? or that people |
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> think of it as a ricer distro? |
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Its a rolling distro; compared to static release distros (Ubuntu LTS, |
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Debian Stable) it is not even close to the most stable because it |
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changes frequently. |
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> I face funroll-loops references and worse almost every time I bring up |
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> Gentoo among a different group of Linux-familiar technical people. |
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> There are still *very* strong prejudices against Gentoo in most places |
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> I've brought it up. But when I bring it up, and I argue against those |
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> funroll-loops references, one or two people come out of lurking and |
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> admit that they use it...and it's a surprise to people around them. |
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I've encountered different anecdotes; but in the end that is all they |
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are. Many technical people I encounter say they used Gentoo at one |
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time or another, learned a lot, then moved on to new things. |
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> I've started describing it as a "coming out of the closet" experience |
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> for a reason... There's a _serious_ reputation issue that Gentoo still |
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> hasn't completely sloughed off...which is incredibly sad. Of all the |
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> distros I've used, I've come to the conclusion that Gentoo is the |
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> easily nicest for almost anyone even moderately technical. |
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At least in the working world, most technical people just want to get |
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things done; Linux is just one tool in their toolbox for doing this. |
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Most of them don't want to spent time messing with their distro; they |
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just want things to work out of the box, configured the way they like |
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(and I don't mean USE flags in this context, I mean the UI.) |
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> -- |
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> :wq |
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