On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Matthew Ayres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > Sorry if the questions look senseless, I'm just trying to figure out > > what could be the goal of developing Gentoo GNU/Hurd. > > Gentoo users are, naturally, more technically minded than users of > many distros (Debian possibly being an exception here). The Gentoo > meta-distro is generally compiled from source and that naturally makes > it more automatic for users to investigate and modify that source > code. I believe that this offers a possible advantage to the Hurd > project because it opens an extra group of potential developers to > port software to the Hurd and to identify and create new features > needed in the Hurd itself. > Aha, so, as far as I can understand from your and Arne's messages, creating a Gentoo GNU/Hurd will at least result in an enlargement in the group of porters, which is very good already, to say nothing of the fact that these porters are going to be experienced people. Thanks for information :-) Regards, scolobb
