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On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, 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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> > 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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no, it is just any indication that nobody wants to wade trought thousands of |
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messages and stupid forum posting. |
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OF COURSE gentoo was 'fast' at the beginning. When there is nothing, |
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everything added is a huge step forward. |
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If you are using a ~arch system, you'll see douzends of new packages every |
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single day. Is that slow? |
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And FreeBSD: |
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because of some needed kernel changes that are known for literally years but |
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have not been made so far, FreeBSD on AMD64 has no nvidia support. So much |
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about moving 'fast'. |
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