Grobian wrote: > On 02-01-2006 21:12:03 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>We already have a mission statement - to produce the best software >>distribution, ever ;-) >>Wether it should be Linux only, GNU-based or a metadistribution is a >>rather touchy subject, so please try to keep the discussion >>civilized ... > > > Lance mentioned something about what he sees is a niche where Gentoo > does quite well. "Produce the best software distribution, ever" sounds > a bit vague to me. That's why I agree with Lance for now. Maybe after > a little research, trial and error period it turns out to be better to > keep the target vague.
Yeah, if we're content to being a hobbyist distro, then that mission statement will work. But, the technology behind Gentoo has far broader benefits for various things. Especially with the recent work of the alt related subprojects, embedded, etc ... its changing. Like for me, I would love to use the portage technology to build packages for solaris machines I maintain at work. We have a build system currently, but its nothing like portage. Gentoo is more than just Linux now and we should have goals that fit that. When I say "we have a niche we're perfect at", I'm mainly referring to the source-based nature of our OS. There isn't another distro out there that does it as well as us and we should improve on that fact. Let the other distros get better at being binary-based. Anyways, thats my thoughts. -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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