Gentoo Games

TheSurfer writes "Today, Gentoo announced the creation of Gentoo Games, 'a gaming technology company created to deliver innovative Linux-based game technologies to the public'. They also released a GameCD with the full version of America's Army. For more information, see the threads in the forums here and here."

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former dev speaks out on Gentoo and its FUD

[Anonymous Coward]

I, (the AC that i am), am a former developer with the Gentoo project and in fact had a very large hand in shaping Gentoo into what it is today, and the public has no idea what is going on here...

Daniel Robbins has ridden on the coat tails of other developers for so long it is not funny, I left the project due to this... he is an a$$hole plain out... he pockets the money that he makes from banners ads (yes banner ads on the .org site) directly.. it does not go into Gentoo .. it goes into his pocket, as does any other revenues that have come into "Gentoo Technologies Inc.". In reality Gentoo == drobbins in all way shapes or forms. Work others did mean nothing to him, nor does anything that's not in his "cool" list.. like th 1.4 release...

drobbins needs professional help (of the psych kind) and needs to stop resting on his behind and taking credit for what everyone else does for 'his' project... he hasn't written an original piece of code or done much more than push things into where he feels they should be at in a long long time.. even his 'original' things like his live CD technology and his stage building scripts were blatantly ripped off (without the GPL required credits remaining in them) from former developers .. to which he claims 100% credit for now as his original work. The original authors are left to dangle in the wind and are no longer with the project, as everything else it's now something that drobbins accomplished...

And now for the important point... what ever happened to their 1.4 release? It's been 'coming' for well over a year now and it still keeps getting pushed back into nothingness for projects like this one (which is IMHO extremely lame). Ryan (icculus) does the hard work of the porting, and he in fact refuses to run gentoo!! Think about it... its a cash in situation... don't you think they could have done more than make a lousy little PNG for their new website before they got slashdotted if this was a serious venture that actually had some work into it?

Think about it peeps... maybe I should step into the light and make my own distro with the myriads of other fantstic developers that daniel has single handedly driven from the project, and there are a LOT of us. As for his renowned *nix skillz ... I can testify first hand he is a text book monkey and his little to zero actual real expereicne doing anythin excpet living in his fantasy world

Sorry to be so harsh, but someone had to step up and set things straight here