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 1MmqC3-0005Yk-G6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:36:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D92CE07C1; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com (mail-yx0-f189.google.com [209.85.210.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517C7E07C1 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe27 with SMTP id 27so3078497yxe.10 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:36:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GN6yajvBRDVZ/4EtKZkppT2h14BEXibvPwoCyySdg7s=; b=TGitwPXMvGOPA48ZhTmdvSznGfg350Uam7hnwa9cX6mt8KG/TATtPhryG7w+fVGbJ3 SehQTH814PDNAroq5XfemRrj7D0XMUneQmfrcgYtEXmUILPbHnCXu40Ci+1DDDaLYX1I +L9gDKZaxsW0TIKF1iGbcK/etnvhegPghTVtA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=waRKmli1jJJUu40OuLD0j12tZzf0H/t/h9ms0rKz+NaMFy3cb+7cnza1XX8rxYR/kX RjKJGc4gQprPsPZ7n5cts2iKgxoNbwBzSshIxcvruOuzYg3orht34NS2EZAFtaWgJ6/x kjlMl9pn59Hg2LHwzGJJ/u1AuPWcaeORm982U= Received: by 10.101.87.4 with SMTP id p4mr5415721anl.68.1252852602067; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-144-216-40.jan.bellsouth.net [70.144.216.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm1140167yxe.10.2009.09.13.07.36.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AAD0377.8070001@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:36:39 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> <4b0462b4d4cc0f26a7b45e6787d51890@localhost> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 13f0046f-e0fb-4dcd-ae39-728b55248fc5 X-Archives-Hash: 2c406920f20b13719b70f20c21d13d4e Duncan wrote: > Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero posted on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:11:42 +0200 as excerp= ted: > > =20 >> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:02:44 +0200, Sebastian Pipping >> wrote: >> =20 >>> Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a >>> table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is >>> per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first >>> places people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about, >>> besides Wikpedia and ${distro}.org. >>> =20 >> 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. >> =20 > > ++ > > =20 - - 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.=20 Dale :-) :-)=20