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On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:54:06 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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> I'm thinking this over a bit more, and it seems like the best thing |
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> for Gentoo (or any distro) is a lot of users. More users must mean |
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> more active developers, and more active developers must mean an |
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> increased rate of growth for the software. |
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"must mean"? Why? The only thing more users must mean is more users. If |
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you maintain the proportion of users-who-would-become-devs to |
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always-users your point may have some validity, but the ratio always |
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drops when a distro becomes popular. More users often means more work for |
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the same number of devs, it can be counter-productive. |
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> I believe the great benefit of Gentoo is its flexibility, and |
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> flexibility is like a meta-benefit because it makes possible any other |
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> benefit. What do you think makes Ubuntu the distro of the moment? Is |
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> it ease-of-use? If Gentoo focused more on ease-of-use aspects of the |
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> Ubuntu variety, they would attract more users and thereby increase the |
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> rate of growth for the software. |
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Do we really need yet another easy to use distro? There are already more |
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than enough of those. Gentoo is for those who want maximum control over |
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their systems and are prepared to make the effort to achieve this. This |
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is for a different type of user. Turn Gentoo into yet another easy-to-use |
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distro and those people lose while those wanting ease of use gain very |
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little. |
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I really don't care if Gentoo is considered a minority distro, it is not, |
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and hopefully never will be, a mass market product. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space. |
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-- Murphy's Computer Laws n°3 |
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