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The current Gentoo Embedded project was started after an earlier effort was forked into Zynot.

It's been tentatively forked already.

Yes, I'm only kidding.

good riddance

While he certainly was the driving force behind Gentoo, it wasn't all good.

To put it bluntly, Mr. Robbins is an utter PITA to work with. Many of the same things that have been said about Theo de Raadt (true or not) could be said about drobbins. This has alread caused a fork in Gentoo. My very limited exposure to dealing with Mr. Robbins left me with such a bad taste in my mouth I just decided to drop it rather than put up with it.

Gentoo is a wonderful distribution, which I still use. But like several other open source projects (*cough*xfree86*cough*thebsds*cough*), those running the project were operating disconnected from their user/developer base. It isn't that central control is bad (Linus keeps control of final say) but that a central control that doesn't play nice with others is going to spell trouble.

I hope that Gentoo will end up better for it.

Embedded devices by Zynot, the official Gentoo fork(tm)!

It's at http://www.zynot.org/.

I do wonder whatever happened to that one guy who wanted to fork Gentoo... did he ever follow thru with his plans?"

He has attracted many people who now are part of a growing community (358 members so far)... That probably will get bigger once a first release comes out.

What I like the most about this new, as yet unnamed distro, compared to Gentoo, is that it is on the path of becoming a truly democratic " distro (a la Debian) with the tools to achieve the goal.

I do wonder whatever happened to that one guy who wanted to fork Gentoo... did he ever follow thru with his plans?"

He has attracted many people who now are part of a growing community (358 members so far)... That probably will get bigger once a first release comes out.

What I like the most about this new, as yet unnamed distro, compared to Gentoo, is that it is on the path of becoming a truly democratic " distro (a la Debian) with the tools to achieve the goal.

I do wonder whatever happened to that one guy who wanted to fork Gentoo... did he ever follow thru with his plans?"

He has attracted many people who now are part of a growing community (358 members so far)... That probably will get bigger once a first release comes out.

What I like the most about this new, as yet unnamed distro, compared to Gentoo, is that it is on the path of becoming a truly democratic " distro (a la Debian) with the tools to achieve the goal.

I do wonder whatever happened to that one guy who wanted to fork Gentoo... did he ever follow thru with his plans?"

He has attracted many people who now are part of a growing community (358 members so far)... That probably will get bigger once a first release comes out.

What I like the most about this new, as yet unnamed distro, compared to Gentoo, is that it is on the path of becoming a truly democratic " distro (a la Debian) with the tools to achieve the goal.

I do wonder whatever happened to that one guy who wanted to fork Gentoo... did he ever follow thru with his plans?"

He has attracted many people who now are part of a growing community (358 members so far)... That probably will get bigger once a first release comes out.

What I like the most about this new, as yet unnamed distro, compared to Gentoo, is that it is on the path of becoming a truly democratic " distro (a la Debian) with the tools to achieve the goal.

You mean Zachary T Welch? If we are talking about the same guy he did indeed follow through with his fork Zynot. It was discussed on slashdot on the 26th of June.

Someone catch this on the metamod...

How is this a troll? If you thought the poster was trying to ignite flamage, then the post was "-1 Flamebait." (which would still be wrong)

It's easy to check whether the poster is trolling.

The Zynot Foundation

Weeell, I'll be. Iff'in there ain't a Zynot Foundation that went and forked the Gentoo distro.

For the record, I'll be interested to see what the Zynot Foundation does with the Gentoo code base, too. They're supposed to be bringing it to the embedded market easier through better support for cross compiling, plus a different portage implementation.