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On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:48:12AM -0800, Grant wrote |
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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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One item (amongst many) that chased me away from Windows was the |
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upgrade treadmill... |
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1993 Win3.1 |
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1994 Win3.11 |
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1995 Win95 |
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1996 Win95OSr2 |
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1997 And on the 1997th year, Go^H^H Gates rested |
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1998 Win98 |
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1999 Win98SE |
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2000 WinME and Win2K |
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2001 WinXP |
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Remember that Gentoo is a linux distro, meaning that it is an |
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implementation based on Linus Torvalds' baby. You may be thinking back |
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to the early days of Kernel 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, etc, etc. For whatever |
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reason, 2.6 has been around for 4 years, with no signs of being |
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replaced. Gentoo can't do much about that, or do you want to fork the |
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linux kernel? There have been a lot of "minor" improvements that, taken |
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together, have led to major overall improvement. |
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Basically, linux has caught up to Windows, indeed 64-bit linux has |
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been better than 64-Windows for the past year. |
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> The concept is second to none, the execution of that concept is |
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> fantastic, but it needs to keep moving forward. |
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Do you have a list of significant improvements you want implemented? |
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There were gaping holes in linux's abilities in the past. These |
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problems have been fixed. Change simply for the sake of change is a |
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relic of the Windows era. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I'm not repeating myself |
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I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user |
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