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Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution
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 'the Gentoo Foundation's charter has been revoked for several weeks, which means that as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists.'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.'"
I never liked the condescending attitude of those Gentoo users that think compiling everything was always so superior to Yum or apt-get.
They are prolly made up of the survivors of the sinking Slackware bunch ( who are equally annoying ).
Of course Gentoo or Slackware or the like will work fine, but in these days of fast processors and cheap memory, why not just use a Debian based Linux like Ubuntu WITH a GUI, and let some one else compile the thing.
There, I feel better now.
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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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Aww, poor baby gentool. Someone sounds like he's a widdle bit upset about the fact that the people behind Gentoo _themselves_ don't even give a shit about it any more.
Nice elitism too there, "oh, you only have to be literate to install Gentoo, all of the other distributions cater to morons and I'm above them obviously." Do everyone a favour and throw that four year install in the trash compactor rather than subject everyone to another four years of your bullshit, gentool.
Say what you will about Ubuntu, at least Mark Shuttleworth didn't kneel before Microsoft.
Fucking bullshit dude. What the fuck are you talking about?
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.