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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo
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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
:-) :-)