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Planet Gentoo Announced

Posted by timothy on from the not-discovered dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Gentoo has announced the launch of Planet Gentoo, a weblog aggregator similar in style to Planet Gnome and Planet Debian. There are some interesting reads on what's going on, what might be going on in the future, and the occasional entertaining troll to liven things up. Worth a read to see what's being cooked up by one of the more innovative distributions, even if you're not a Gentoo user yourself."

25 comments

  1. Planet SuSE? by hhlost · · Score: 1

    Please wake me up when there's a Planet SuSE...

    1. Re:Planet SuSE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Wakey, wakey hands off snakey!
      http://www.planetsuse.org/

    2. Re:Planet SuSE? by hhlost · · Score: 1

      <snort> Hey, thanks!

  2. What planet have I been on? by RangerRick98 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Am I the only one who wasn't aware of ANY of these "planet" websites?

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    1. Re:What planet have I been on? by thenerdgod · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's a planet thing, man... you wouldn't understand

    2. Re:What planet have I been on? by wocket44 · · Score: 1

      don't worry...I had no idea either

  3. Trolling? by keesh · · Score: 1

    I can't see anything on the linked post that's trolling. That all looks totally true to me. Anyone explain?

    1. Re:Trolling? by redog · · Score: 1

      This is a jab at ciaranm. He's typicaly very outspoken about his positions and as in any typical controversy the looser typicaly resorts to name calling.

    2. Re:Trolling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think you mean 'loser' you wart-headed buffoon.

    3. Re:Trolling? by detour207 · · Score: 1

      One can only guess that its referring to the post the guy makes about PHP being only a "toy language" because it came from humble roots.. He's obviously grossly incorrect and almost certainly is trying to incite others to challenge his opinion.

    4. Re:Trolling? by keesh · · Score: 0, Troll

      So you're saying that Visual Basic isn't a toy language, despite its roots? Looks like the same deal to me...

    5. Re:Trolling? by detour207 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      And what exactly constitutes a "toy language"? He seems to be implying that PHP is only meant for use as web counters on people's personal home pages. Considering its widespread deployment and even incorporation by one of the web's biggest portals (Yahoo), I feel PHP is justified as a bonafide programming language. If a language gets the job done, use it. Just because it is easy to use/learn shouldn't automatically make it a "toy language", in fact, its quite childish to come to such conclusions. He makes no clear argument for justifing his statement, thus it would seem to be that he's just trying to incite others to retaliate. Convenient, because he is in a position to put himself up on a pedestal and proclaim that [insert language of his choice] is the only TRUE web programming language.

    6. Re:Trolling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      If you are a Gentoo user, chances are you know what a troll Ciaranm is. Read the forums or gentoo-dev list. Read his past entries and you'll see him trolling fellow developers.

      Hes only remotely civilized when hes begging for amazon wishlist items.

    7. Re:Trolling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Just look for some recent posts about reiser4 on the forums. His way or the highway. ;) From a college student no less.. Whores for wishlist items, doesn't get any from Gentoo users and states such, and is hung up on vim and fluxbox with everything else being useless it seems.. especially those "other" html editors. :(

      Must be a common trait in the fluxbox camp, they don't seem to play well with others. :)

  4. What a novel idea by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously, what next? Binary packages in .deb format?

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  5. Planets, planets everywhere by some+guy+I+know · · Score: 1
    Am I the only one who wasn't aware of ANY of these "planet" websites?
    What, you've never heard of Planet Slashdot?
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    1. Re:Planets, planets everywhere by RangerRick98 · · Score: 1

      haha, no, but I have heard of Who Does Work When You've Got Slashdot.org?

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  6. What's the point of this? by nagora · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I've looked at it and as far as I can see it's just a sort of blog-list. What's the point of that? What's it do for me as a Gnetoo user?

    And that guy Ciaran McCreesh isn't a troll, he's a wanker, with his "I'll critise something I don't understand and wind up everyone who does for a laugh" routine. I'm sure we'll see Ciaran stepping up to take Dave Allen's mantel as the world's greatest comedian any day now...Christ, to be a spotty know-it-all again!

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    1. Re:What's the point of this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And that guy Ciaran McCreesh isn't a troll, he's a wanker, with his "I'll critise something I don't understand and wind up everyone who does for a laugh" routine.

      Er... that's what a troll is. You weren't under the delusion that everybody thought he lived under a bridge were you?

    2. Re:What's the point of this? by nagora · · Score: 1
      Er... that's what a troll is. You weren't under the delusion that everybody thought he lived under a bridge were you?

      Well, he looks like he lives under a bridge...

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      "Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
  7. WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No OMG how long will it take to compile a planet posts? You slashdot people are slacking. ;)

  8. No one seemed to mention the CMS by kbahey · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just so everyone knows, both sites run Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS) that is written in PHP and runs on *NIX flavors, Windows, PostrgreSQL and MySQL.

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    1. Re:No one seemed to mention the CMS by dsd · · Score: 1

      Which two sites are these? Planet Gentoo is powered by http://www.planetplanet.org/

    2. Re:No one seemed to mention the CMS by kbahey · · Score: 1

      Seems that I confused Planet Debian for Debian Planet, and extrapolated from there. Apologies

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