On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I agree with Greg Kroah-Hartman: I actually like (and want) a >> "vertically integrated, tightly coupled way of doing things". > > Well, if you completely agreed with him you wouldn't be running Gentoo > (or Debian, or other general-purpose distros). He advocates that > ordinary users should use more purpose-driven distros, where all of > this stuff is less of an issue. > > He does make a valid point - I'd never argue that a linux noob should > start with Gentoo. However, obviously I think Gentoo has its place, > and the world would be poorer without it.
I don't understand you. Greg is a Gentoo developer; he would never propose for Gentoo to disappear. I don't consider myself (nor any other Gentoo user) an ordinary user; Gentoo is for power users, I believe. That is orthogonal to get a vertically integrated, tightly coupled system, and the advantages of it are independent of how easy to use is the system. The primary advantage (from my point of view) is that we get a unique, robust stack from kernel to userspace, where we don't need to worry about 20 different implementations of the same functionality. I think that's what Greg was talking about, and I agree with that. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
