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On 19 December 2006 00:23, Bryan Østergaard wrote: |
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> Gentoo started with the stated goal of providing a metadistribution. |
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> This basically means providing the best possible foundation for others |
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> to tinker with any way they like. Be it building embedded applications, |
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> making the next 'Ubuntu' or whatever. To me the flexibility that Gentoo |
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> provides is one of the most important things. |
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Exactly. Over the last 2 years or so, I have converted most of my customers to |
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Gentoo - and it is a big relief compared to all those commercial |
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distributions. I all ways had to fight their admin tools for any setup that |
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wasn't completely standard. With Gentoo, I can set up systems exactly the way |
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I want them without fighting anything. That's an incredible advantage from a |
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professional sys/net-admin's POV. |
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> And for those who think Gentoo is declining I can only say that's |
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> definitely not what I'm seeing as lead of developer relations and |
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> recruiters. There's always some developers leaving but we have a lot |
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> more developers joining us. In the last 3 years that I've been a Gentoo |
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> developer we've grown from ~80 developers to 330+ developers. That's a |
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> yearly growth of 60% or more. |
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Amen. At last, someone provides numbers instead of speculation. |
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Now, if only open-xchange made the jump from hard masked to unstable. ;-) |
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Uwe |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na |
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