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> > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking |
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> > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like |
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> > things being improved as quickly as possible. |
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> Where do you find it is slowed? |
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I don't have statistics to support this, but it seems obvious to me |
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that things have slowed way down from the pace they used to be on. In |
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the beginning, it felt to me like the devs were building an extremely |
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powerful and flexible foundation upon which all kinds of amazing |
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things were going to be built. The foundation is still good but where |
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are the skyscrapers? Also the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter not being |
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published in 2 months is an easy-to-analyze indication of slowage. |
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> > FreeBSD is supposed to |
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> > be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there |
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> > is anything as satisfying as Gentoo out there. The concept is second |
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> > to none, the execution of that concept is fantastic, but it needs to |
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> > keep moving forward. What is the next step? Or should we keep |
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> > treading water? |
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> What do you mean, practically? |
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That's a very good question. I think all kinds of great things |
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"should" be built upon the Gentoo foundation. Although I doubt I'll |
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ever use it, the graphical installer is a good example. Different |
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layers going in different directions could be built on top of Gentoo's |
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foundation. To me, it seems flexible enough to allow for anything. |
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- Grant |
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