forums.gentoo.org — There's a poll in the Gentoo forums regarding Daniel Robbins offer today to help get Gentoo Linux back on it's feet. Gentoo is in serious need of a leader that is not afraid to take action. Please follow the link and vote yes.
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baalzebubJan 12, 2008
you wanna fix gentoo, get rid of those damn USE flags and other crap in /etc/make.conf and simplify portage ebuilds, you try to do too much, want a good example of a good ports system? look at FreeBSD's ports or Crux both of which dont over do it with stupid useless prefrences (especially the USE flags) late last year i unpacked a stage 3 tarball and built a nice kernel for it, and emerged xorg and a few basic things (cups, esp-ghostscript whatever) and a lightweight window manager and firefox, and guess what? most the graphics and photos would not work because i did not include some stupid USE flag that should naturally be included by default, forget gentoo, i dont want to waste my time on that annoying distro...
naughtyboyJan 12, 2008
uh, you must have been around linux for too long. Most computer users dont know how to install linux, let alone change their operating system. Gentoo is very tweakable, not for mainstream user. If gentoo is to be taken seriiously, as a desktop OS, it has to release a "ubuntu" version with gentoo functionality. That is, if it want to be a mainstream OS, it can't be both at the same time.
azurielJan 13, 2008
You say "fork" so casually, like it's easy to fork a linux distribution. Gentoo has a similar system to Debian with stable and unstable packages; stable would correspond to your "Mainstream" and unstable to "Advanced". Admittedly stable isn't as stable as it should be, but if you want anything more look at Sabayon or some other Gentoo derived distro.