But how many people actually use Gentoo, apart from the Gentoo trolls on Slashdot who will throw in a Gentoo reference at the drop of a hat?
I think many GNU/Linux users have given Gentoo a try. However, for every Gentoo user I can think of, I can think of five who used it for a month or two, decided that there was no benefit in using emerge versus apt or urpmi and went back to Debian or Mandrake.
Gentoo is also a much more specialized distro. You're insane if you want to use Gentoo on a server (as gcc on a server is a bad idea), making it a workstation only distro. Debian and Mandrake are the last two remaining Free Software general purpose distros (ie suitable for both server and workstation environments).
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Mandrake 10.0 will likely include that very feature. It's in active development as we speak.
But how many people actually use Gentoo, apart from the Gentoo trolls on Slashdot who will throw in a Gentoo reference at the drop of a hat?
I think many GNU/Linux users have given Gentoo a try. However, for every Gentoo user I can think of, I can think of five who used it for a month or two, decided that there was no benefit in using emerge versus apt or urpmi and went back to Debian or Mandrake.
Gentoo is also a much more specialized distro. You're insane if you want to use Gentoo on a server (as gcc on a server is a bad idea), making it a workstation only distro. Debian and Mandrake are the last two remaining Free Software general purpose distros (ie suitable for both server and workstation environments).
Mandrake releases PPC versions of every alternate x86 release (so the next PPC release will be 10.0). There's a cooker-ppc branch also.
There's a big gulf between "freedom of speech, but only when I agree" and "I don't want to be distributing said speech".
I do think that the right of free speech does/should extend to kiddie porn, but that does not mean that I will support its distribution.