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Grant wrote: |
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> In December 2006 I started a thread titled "Is Gentoo Healthy?" in |
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> which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the |
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> decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the |
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> remaining Gentoo users in a negative way. |
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> Is everyone still toeing that line? The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter |
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> hasn't been published in almost two months. Is Gentoo destined to be |
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> just another distro starved for contributors and struggling to stay up |
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> to date? If so, I really misjudged it. The meta approach of Gentoo |
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> is superior to any other in my mind, and I think it's growth and |
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> potential are being stunted by the "we don't need them" attitude which |
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> perpetuates Gentoo's lack of usability features for beginners. |
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> Gentoo needs as many users as possible to reach its potential. It's a |
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> short-sighted mistake to think that non-contributing users do Gentoo |
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> no good. Non-contributing users become contributors as time passes. |
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> Car mechanics all start as car drivers. |
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> - Grant |
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The startup I work for was bought last Oct. I spent four months |
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migrating to Redhat ES 4.0 as well as dealing with some odd internal |
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software decisions at the new company. Six months later the whole system |
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still doesn't run as well or give me the flexibility I had with Gentoo. |
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On top of that I get to deal with a poorly implemented, thought out, |
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and extremely frustrating home grown package management tool that wishes |
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it was one tenth as powerful as portage. Hell most days I'd rather have |
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straight up RPM over the internal tools. And for anyone that thinks |
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Fortune 1000 companies back port fixes of their PHP 5.1 package because |
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their chosen distro doesn't include it (or ninety other packages we use) |
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or test better than unknown thousands of Gentoo users running ~x86, let |
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me disabuse you of that notion right now. |
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The grass always looks greener on the other side and in regards to |
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Gentoo, it ain't. |
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kashani |
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