On Thursday 26 June 2003 21:52, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I don't normally pay attention to things like online linux > distribution polls. They're hardly scientific and so mean little. But > I've seen some folks crowing about how Gentoo is smashing the > competition because of the results of this poll and so I thought I'd > bring the existence of the poll to the attention of Debian folks > here. > > The poll is here: > > <http://www.novell.com/linux/>
Gentoo just got forked. The guy who is managing the fork, Zachary Welch is talking about the reasons why he and a bunch of other Gentoo developers are doing this fork take a look at http://www.zynot.org/info/fork.html The picture that this guy is drawing, from gentoo developers and it's atmosphere isn't good at all. it seems the guy who founded Gentoo, Daniel Robbins, nearly controlls everything, and many of the decisions are made without consulting the community. as an example he talks about Gentoo Games initiative. One thing which I could never figure about Gentoo is that although they have a social contract http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml which is based and similar to Debian Free Software Guidlines, but they also heavily work on things like Unreal Tourtoment and encourage and advertise using them. How is that possible? Cheers -- /* "It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea." --Robert Anton Wilson*/ Aryan Ameri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
