On Monday 09 October 2006 6:30 pm, Alec Warner wrote: > I concur with Donnie here; Gentoo exists not because of Users, but > because of (a subset of active) Developers. It isn't a statement that > is meant to trash users (because you are quite helpful in many > instances). But the naive thought that Gentoo revolves around users > is....well, naive. Gentoo was here before there were thousands of > users, in the unlikely event that you all switch distros, Gentoo will > probably still be here.
It will not, however, have anywhere near as many developers, nor will it have more than a fraction of the resources now available to it. Users are the reason people sponsor Gentoo, users are the reason people know Gentoo exists, whether you realise it or not. > To make another argument; if I go buy a RHEL3 box set and then complain > because the liveCD doesn't have some key programs (lets say > cryptsetup-luks statically compiled so I can boot off of a USB key and > encrypt my / partition), is the onus on them to release a new CD just > for me? Hell I'm a paying customer! But they don't care. Well, that's simply bad customer service. Don't constrict your support organ because someone else's support organ operates poorly. That doesn't help anyone, not users, not devs. In any event, when was the decision made to kill the Universal LiveCD for x86 and replace it with the installer? I'd like to read the discussion. Kari Hazzard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
