Re: Re: Gentoo: "I'm not dead yet!"

> Last time I looked at this, the Dev and board were acting like spoiled

> school brats having hissy fits and power trips. I really do hope they

> do get their act together and put something solid.

Apparently, they made a new board of directors. Didn't hear anything on how  
well they will play with the Devs, though.




> It's one of the few distributions where I've ran multliple versions of  
> gcc, java, and

> php without any problems. Or have the ability to install 3-5

> different versions of package instead of just one.


That's definitely efficient feature. I only wish that it could on Ubuntu.


> I'm not sure why gentoo is trying to do a "release" cycle. Gentoo

> hasn't really had releases to speak of.. ever.



> They had new live cds.. but big deal. you were always up to date by

> doing your emerge -uDN world (apt-get dist-upgrade equivalent). I'm

> not sure why they're trying to make releases to speak of.



> Either ways... currently there is a void in the community that hasn't

> been filled. The folks that loved/used gentoo the hard core elitist

> annoying bastards that looked down upon those mere Ubuntu users.

> *cough* .. I mean.. those guys that love editing config files, and

> scripting and get annoyed at the mention of a GUI when trying to solve

> a problem on linux. They really don't have a decent distro targeted

> at that audience.




A whole lot more distros I'm seeing lately are trying to target a more  
user-friendly arena. It does kind suck though for those who really like  
hacking a way at a system, as you have a lot of red tape.

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