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Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect

Posted by timothy on from the bjorn-borg dept.

bdowne01 writes "Gentoo Linux has experienced rapid growth in the past year--much to the credit of Daniel Robbins, the founder and Chief Architect of the project. Earlier today, he announced his resignation from his role on the gentoo-nfp mailing list." Tester adds "But before leaving, he has set up a non-profit foundation that will own all of the copyrights to Gentoo. The initial board of trustees will be appointed by Daniel, but next year they will be elected. The membership of the foundation will be open." Reader burnitall points out a note on the Gentoo homepage reading "... We are extremely sad to see Daniel Robbins depart, and we both wish him the best in his new endeavors and promise that the door will always be open for his return." Robbins' message also indicates he hopes to continue working on the release engineering aspect of Gentoo.

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  1. Re:An Etiquette question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    "You must be envious Debian user. I'll leave you to your "stale" distro now."
    I think you made a typo there, it's "stable"... wait a minute, that was a pun or something wasn't it?
  2. Re:Gentoo by Etyenne · · Score: 0, Troll
    Arrgh. Time to feed the trolls. Let me explain. After the install, you never actually wait for the packages to compile/install. You can use kde-3.2.0 while (should you feel the need to upgrade) you are compiling 3.2.2. I've got you down as a friend, so you must have said something insightful in the past.

    What if someone send me a document in some slightly exotic (let's say LyX) format. I need to have a look at the document to get a project going. I do not have LyX installed already; never bothered because I am not a LyX user. emerge lyx ? Yeah ! ... not.

    Don't tell me that this someone should have sent a PDF or whatever, it's not the point. The point is that, somewhen, I will have to install a software to get something done and could definitely skip the compilation. Be it The GIMP, Scribus, Audacity, MPlayer, sodipodi or whatever, the moment I will want one of these apps, I may notfeel like twiddling my thumbs an hour or two waiting for them and all their dependancies to compile.

    And don't tell me to install binary package either. I may as well use yum, up2date, Red Carpet, YaST, urpmi, apt-get or any other binary package management system in the first place and be done with it.

    --
    :wq
  3. It was only a matter of time... by Ingolfke · · Score: 0, Troll

    before he switched to Fedora like the rest of us.