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Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the back-in-the-saddle-again dept.

mrbadbar writes "Gentoo Linux founder Daniel Robbins says Gentoo's leadership is in crisis. 'the Gentoo Foundation's charter has been revoked for several weeks, which means that as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists.' Robbins offers a solution: his return as President of the Gentoo Foundation. According to Robbins: 'If I return as President, I will preserve the not-for-profit aspect of Gentoo. Beyond this, you can expect everything to be very, very different than how things are today.'"

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  1. Re:Should we care? by mustafap · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    I disagree. In fact your point:

    > There are hundreds of distros out there

    is the bit that I would be concerned with. While I can't draw on any formal evidence, it seems obvious that there comes a point where diluting the development effort across an ever increasing number of distributions becomes counter productive.

    I'll shut up now because this is hardly a new idea, but thanks for the debate.

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  2. Re:Trouble by vandan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    6. You are forced to update VERY frequently. More than a month and you are CERTAIN to get issues while compiling.

    Fucking bullshit dude. What the fuck are you talking about?

    7. Actually getting a usable desktop (with udev, automounting etc.) working is a hell of a lot of work

    Oh dear! Add the 'hal' and 'dbus' use flags and emerge a recent desktop. I have it working with NO manual configuration on almost 30 computers. What's wrong with you?

    Seriously, if you want to use another distro, for whatever reason ( say, like you're not quite bright enough for a 'roll your own' distro ), then fine. But if you want to constructively add to a conversation, it helps to leave the bullshit in your head rather than have it ooze out your mouth or dial-up line.