Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:09:09 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a web server they would lend me a page of? I have > one but it hosts my business website and I don't want it to become the > target of super-savvy folk. ftp, ssh, even copy-paste would be > greatly appreciated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-20 Thread Grant
> > > > > Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this > > > > > thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and > > > > > shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work > > > > > completed on them? Because living costs money and Gentoo > > > > > doesn't pay. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:31:58 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this > > > > thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and > > > > shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work > > > > completed on them? Becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-18 Thread Grant
> > > Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is > > > this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't > > > work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living > > > costs money and Gentoo doesn't pay. > > > > > I've been in business

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-18 Thread Grant
> > Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is > > this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't > > work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living > > costs money and Gentoo doesn't pay. > > > I've been in business for 7 years

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread James
b.n. gmail.com> writes: > > I offered to take over the maintenance of the package and web installation > > page, and was turned down (probable by some punk under the age of 20) > Sad. Can you link the thread? I think that would be counter productive. It's the 'culture of gentoo' that en

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is > this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't > work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living > costs money and Gentoo doesn't pay. > I've been in busin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Grant
> >> > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > >> > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > >> > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > >> > be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't thi

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:05:08 +0100, b.n. wrote: > Florian Philipp ha scritto: > >> Other things to improve? A better documentation on USE-flags. In my >> opinion every maintainer should provide as much information as possible >> on what exactly a USE-flag changes. At the moment it's the >> admini

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:56:41 -0800, Grant wrote: >> > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking >> > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like >> > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to >> > be the closest rela

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: > I offered to take over the maintenance of the package and web installation > page, and was turned down (probable by some punk under the age of 20) > Sad. Can you link the thread? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > > Otherwise, I'm interested in what your definition of "forward" is. > How about anything? More than nothing. I'd agree with this. I think gentoo is having growing pains in directions the (gentoo) pundits are not really interested in. Take for example JAVA. IMHO j