On 19 December 2006 00:23, Bryan Østergaard wrote: > Gentoo started with the stated goal of providing a metadistribution. > This basically means providing the best possible foundation for others > to tinker with any way they like. Be it building embedded applications, > making the next 'Ubuntu' or whatever. To me the flexibility that Gentoo > provides is one of the most important things.
Exactly. Over the last 2 years or so, I have converted most of my customers to Gentoo - and it is a big relief compared to all those commercial distributions. I all ways had to fight their admin tools for any setup that wasn't completely standard. With Gentoo, I can set up systems exactly the way I want them without fighting anything. That's an incredible advantage from a professional sys/net-admin's POV. > And for those who think Gentoo is declining I can only say that's > definitely not what I'm seeing as lead of developer relations and > recruiters. There's always some developers leaving but we have a lot > more developers joining us. In the last 3 years that I've been a Gentoo > developer we've grown from ~80 developers to 330+ developers. That's a > yearly growth of 60% or more. Amen. At last, someone provides numbers instead of speculation. Now, if only open-xchange made the jump from hard masked to unstable. ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
