-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Caleb Cushing schrieb:
> right now were 12 going up probably from all the sites saying negative > things. funny sabayon a gentoo fork and overlay is in 8. I know these > statistics aren't 100% accurate (given how they're generated) but maybe > they mean something. I just had to check that one out. Haven't been to Distrowatch for about a year. Some thoughts I had: *The person addressed here is not Caleb. This is targeted at the "general" public of this list* - - Sabayon is a liveCD. It is created to make people interested. Why? Because this is not the recovery-boot-into-ram-fire-up-bash-and-restore-your-hd sort of LiveCD. This one is full featured. So whom does it target? People who are not sure what they want yet. That is a good thing. I haven't been sure what kind of distro I'd need for years. I probably even have more LiveCDs then AOL-Install CDs in my home - - and there isn't a single week where that ISP doesn't send out it's trash. So people are interested. They want to try before they buy and thus throw in some LiveCD. Everything is working nicely? Cool. Just install it to your HD and you can be sure that there won't be any trouble configuring the Kernel or some daemons. - - BUT: This is Gentoo. Why do you use it? Because it is some easily running mildly secure out of the box distro? Or do you use it because it gives you the power to do whatever you like, taking all the chances to create (and break) your perfect system? Because it will never force you to use something like Yast? Because you can create about anything from a full-fledged high-end gaming machine to a webserver to an embedded system of about 25 MB? And if you want Pentium-M optimized packages with SSP and PIE - no Problem. Just change half a dozen options in make.conf and recompile. You are even able to play around. I got a computer casemodded into a Record Player. It is running Gentoo, boots up in about 5 Seconds and listens to my voice commands in order to play music. No other distro could have been adjusted this drastically. And that is why I (<- subjective individualist opinion) love and use Gentoo. - - I never looked at Gentoo as some sort of mainstream Distribution. If Gentoo intended to win a popularity contest it would work completely differently from the ground up. Most users aren't interested in choices. No matter how much flames/traffic I get on all the Gentoo-related lists (which recently has become a lot), no matter what Distrowatch, Golem or some other site says, no matter how many breakages I get from emerge - -uDv world (as long as I'll still be able to keep my system running) - I'll continue to use Gentoo because it is the only system that fits my needs. I know that right now everyone is quite edgy. That many people try to defend what they are and who they are and that many people are angry. Many of them are right. But opposed to that I want to say something completely different: Thank You. Thanks to all the old devs, thanks to all the new devs, thanks to everyone contributing and thanks to the many whom I've forgotten. In my opinion this is still one of the bests distros around. And you made that possible. My two cents Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+HjpaHrXRd80sY8RClkHAKDn3NEB1fmob+I6QNyU2OZFhsW81ACg30eL HV82ePFVhCJpnLSqduoHQeA= =SmR9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
