On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 16 December 2012 16:57, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: >>> Inspired by the number of packages being unmaintained -- why not use >>> some of that bug bounty money to fix up the recruitment documentation >> >> Recruitment documentatiob? What does that mean? >> >>> People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all >>> the time, when in reality, it's one of the most stable. >> >> Well that's not entirely true but that's a different issue > > What's not really true? That it's the most stable? or that people > think of it as a ricer distro?
Its a rolling distro; compared to static release distros (Ubuntu LTS, Debian Stable) it is not even close to the most stable because it changes frequently. > > I face funroll-loops references and worse almost every time I bring up > Gentoo among a different group of Linux-familiar technical people. > There are still *very* strong prejudices against Gentoo in most places > I've brought it up. But when I bring it up, and I argue against those > funroll-loops references, one or two people come out of lurking and > admit that they use it...and it's a surprise to people around them. I've encountered different anecdotes; but in the end that is all they are. Many technical people I encounter say they used Gentoo at one time or another, learned a lot, then moved on to new things. > > I've started describing it as a "coming out of the closet" experience > for a reason... There's a _serious_ reputation issue that Gentoo still > hasn't completely sloughed off...which is incredibly sad. Of all the > distros I've used, I've come to the conclusion that Gentoo is the > easily nicest for almost anyone even moderately technical. At least in the working world, most technical people just want to get things done; Linux is just one tool in their toolbox for doing this. Most of them don't want to spent time messing with their distro; they just want things to work out of the box, configured the way they like (and I don't mean USE flags in this context, I mean the UI.) > > -- > :wq >
