From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmqeN-0000Xu-Ua for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:06:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BBD7E0829; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73802E0829 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AA169642 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:05:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:05:53 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 4CzFFEvgr/+zuqQe/qTNXMuq1dlm7w3E+U372bFNKIS+ 1252854352 Received: from [192.168.31.12] (cpe-024-211-156-075.nc.res.rr.com [24.211.156.75]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4C8D72BA for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:05:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4AAD0377.8070001@gmail.com> References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> <4b0462b4d4cc0f26a7b45e6787d51890@localhost> <4AAD0377.8070001@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:05:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1252854352.31198.0.camel@centar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fa465d7a-b655-4b0f-a9e0-ea04ddef45c7 X-Archives-Hash: 55e31b248fda8e513a4f813f2dabdda0 On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 09:36 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Seriously, I doubt that the average Gentoo user comes from > Distrowatch. > >> Gentoo is born from a necessity which is very different from the > usual > >> binary distro. Gentoo has never been about fame or marketing. > - - I came here because of distrowatch. I started with Mandrake 9.1 > but didn't like the upgrade process. I went to distrowatch to see > what > else I could find to use. I found about about Gentoo and here I am, > years later using Gentoo. What do our market research people tell us? ;-) -a