Re: Re[2]: project status

On Saturday 15 January 2005 22:48, kato wrote:
> lol.
> it seems that you are a decision maker within the Gentoo project.
> therefore, you made me stopped reading these posts, loose my interest
> in the project, and indeed un-subscribe from this mailing list.
> but yea, I m joe-user and you couldn't careless.
> good luck in the future.
>

Chris is certainly not the big cheese or anything, but he's right. Gentoo 
is very much for the developers. It also works allong the itch scratching 
lines. And currently the priority is not with average users. The reason? 
Well, if you want to cater average users you need to do different things 
from when you cater power users. Gentoo started out as a power-user 
distribution. It's main strengths are in easy customization, and rolling 
of your own packages. After that it has an attitude not to know what's 
best for the user. These strengths would be weaknesses for average or new 
linux users. In my personal opinion, such users would be better served by 
another distribution. In my view different distributions have different 
goals, and different targets. Each one can exist on it's own, and we 
should work to share our experience instead of engaging in fierce 
competition. As gentoo is a 100% volunteer effort we are able to make 
that choice. Gentoo tries to do what it thinks is best for gentoo, but 
does not try to change what Gentoo is.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: [email protected]
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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