From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:45:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AAD13AF.7080905@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252854352.31198.0.camel@centar>
Albert Hopkins wrote:
> 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
>
>
Good question. How would a person know if distrowatch leads people to
Gentoo or not? It's not like there is really any way to find out.
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-13 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 23:02 [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-12 2:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2009-09-12 12:15 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-14 2:46 ` Ryan Hill
2009-09-29 1:08 ` Donnie Berkholz
2009-09-12 4:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Aaron Bauman
2009-09-12 17:26 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-12 11:23 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2009-09-12 17:29 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 9:11 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-13 10:47 ` Richard Freeman
2009-09-13 10:57 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-13 13:24 ` Richard Freeman
2009-09-13 19:39 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 19:38 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 11:30 ` [gentoo-dev] overlay usage and maintainence [was: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future] Thomas Sachau
2009-09-13 18:57 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-09-13 19:03 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-13 19:41 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-09-13 20:04 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-13 19:25 ` Alexander Færøy
2009-09-13 19:45 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 20:00 ` Alexander Færøy
2009-09-13 20:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-09-13 20:17 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-14 14:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-09-14 18:28 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-14 18:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-09-14 22:03 ` Zac Medico
2009-09-16 20:31 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-16 21:21 ` Zac Medico
2009-09-13 13:59 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future Duncan
2009-09-13 14:36 ` Dale
2009-09-13 15:05 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-09-13 15:45 ` Dale [this message]
2009-09-13 19:52 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-13 21:25 ` Dale
2009-09-13 21:54 ` Alex Legler
2009-09-13 22:08 ` Dale
2009-09-13 22:53 ` Alex Legler
2009-09-13 23:06 ` Dale
2009-09-13 20:00 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-09-20 19:12 ` Duncan
2009-09-21 2:10 ` Angelo Arrifano
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