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On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: |
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> Hello, i have heard several rumors of the future of Gentoo being |
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> uncertain (Gentoo will dissapear, support will stop, etc...). I |
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> wanted to ask you if heard such rumors and why do you think these |
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> rumors go around. |
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> All this begun i found out there would be a debate in the place i |
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> work to decide wich distro will be used on a new server... Debian or |
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> Gentoo, of course i stood up for Gentoo B-) |
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Please please please please PLEASE!!!! |
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Let's all drop this thread right now. It flares up every few months and |
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always goes the same way - becoming a flame war after post #3. Just a |
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few weeks ago the last one finally died down. |
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Gentoo is not dying. The definitive proof is that Netcraft has not |
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confirmed it yet. If you don't get that joke then get yourself a |
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SlashDot subscription :-) |
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These rumours start the same way every other rumour the homo-sapiens has |
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come up with starts - someone says something, someone else gets all |
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riled up and retorts. Someone else accepts this as fact and repeats it |
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without doing any research at all, and before you know it.... |
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So please, think twice before hitting that reply button. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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