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Just getting around to reading this 59 post. Thread. Interesting. Thanks! |
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On 12/18/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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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This is very true. |
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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 agree again. The ONLY problem I'm having with Gentoo is the devs |
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removing older revs of things from portage. (ati-drivers, MythTV, |
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etc.) |
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My older, somewhat specialized MYthTV frontends are boxes that |
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require specific kernel+ati-drivers combos to get SVideo to work. I've |
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found that when I need to upgrade these I find that the version of |
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ati-drivers that I'm currently using is no longer in portage. I lost |
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SVideo output on both my boxes for this reason and had to switch to |
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composite vidio. Bummer. |
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On those machines I'm seemingly forced to use ati-drivers because the |
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xorg ATI drivers only support VGA output on my ATI9200/Pundit-R |
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machines. |
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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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I'd prefer it did not. I still love Gentoo. It's easily the most |
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stable distro I've ever run. (RH & Suse here.) The support from the |
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devs has been second to none. |
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- Mark |
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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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