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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Thorsten Fischer wrote: |
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>Dear gentledevelopers, |
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>I discovered Gentoo Linux a few days ago and find it's port concept |
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>to be very fascinating. As I am a frequent writer for the german |
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>Linux Magazin, I decided to prepare an article about that distribution |
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>for one of the next issues -- after I get the 'build installation' |
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>cross-compiled for my laptop =) |
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Fantastic!! Thanks for thinking of us!! |
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>First, I would appreciate anything pointed out that is important to know |
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>about gentoo and that is not covered on the website or the faq. I know |
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>this is quite an unspecific question, but as I do not know what is _not_ |
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>in the faq, i can't get more specific ;) User reports would be appreciated |
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>as well, bad ones as well as positive ones, as I would prefer a balanced |
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>view on gentoo. |
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Most important is that it's aimed at experianced hackers I think. It's not a |
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trivial install for people new to linux. Also We try to stay very cutting |
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edge. As soon as a new rev on upstream software takes place we try to update |
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our portage tree to reflect that. We pay close attention to security in using |
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things like "supervise", "djbdns", and "qmail". We are very focused on the |
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server market, evidenced by the upcomming inclusion of MOSIX, GFS. We already |
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support LVM, and reiserfs on initial install. I think it's also important to |
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know that anyone who wishes to contribute to gentoo can. Personally I am one |
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of many volunteer tester / package maintainers. |
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>Second, I did not find a hint on the site who is considered the 'inventor' |
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>or current maintainer of gentoo. Gentoo Technologies is mentiond on the |
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>bottom of each page, but gentootech.net is an empty page. I would |
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>appreciate having a short interview with someone who can be considered 'in |
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>charge', if there |
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>is such a person. The only hint I found was Daniel Robbins being called a |
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>chief architect in the Documentation Guide. Interview would include |
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>asking questions on the whereabouts of gentoo, why, when, where, you |
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>get the point. The portage system and its differences to apt-get |
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>and *bsd ports would be covered as well. This may already be part of the |
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>faq, but it's important to be included in an article. |
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Yes, Dan Robbins is the Father of Gentoo, and Chief Architect. Second would be |
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Achim Gottinger. Both fantastic hackers. |
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>If this thing does not belong on the list, please use one of the email |
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>addresses in my signature for private messages. |
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I hope noone minds if I leave this on list, I'd like the rest of the gentoo |
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community to add to it :-) |
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>happy hacking, |
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Same to you! |